In a study published Wednesday in Current Biology, researchers detail how DNA samples from Pompeii’s plaster body casts reveal surprises about sex, family ties and the origins of those who lived there ...
Some of the victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 A.D. in Pompeii were cast in plaster to preserve the scene. New DNA studies of those victims tell a different tale than what experts had ...
[Related: Pompeii’s archaeological puzzles can be solved with a little help from chemistry ... They focused on 14 of 86 casts that are undergoing restoration, with the goal of using the DNA to learn ...
Pompeii's House of the Little Fountain is set to re-open Thursday after a long restoration, the archaeological park at the ancient Roman city near Naples has announced. Located in an important ...
and was fined for damages and restoration work. Or when a British tourist did the same thing to another Pompeii building a couple months later, except he said the initials he carved belonged to ...
Authorities at Pompeii in southern Italy are introducing a daily limit of 20,000 visitors as part of efforts to protect the ancient site. The measure, which will come into force from November 15 ...
Pompeii Archaeological Park is one of the most ... Some left disappointed recently while the fountain was drained as part of a $330,000 restoration project. Zuchtriegel has remarked how these ...