A petrified victim of the volcanic eruption of Mont Vesuvius in 79 A.D. is exhibited in the Roman Villa of the Mysteries (Villa dei Misteri) which was newly restored and re-opened to the public in ...
Drawing on multiple studies demonstrating that it is possible to retrieve DNA from both human and animal remains in Pompeii, they managed to extract genetic information from some of those plaster ...
It was found with the remains of other horses at the Villa of the Mysteries. The villa belonged to a Roman general or high-ranking military magistrate. Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii and other ...