Several lines of evidence, from chiseled inscriptions to missing horses, suggest that thousands of people survived the ...
Scientists sampled tiny bone fragments sealed inside several Pompeii casts and tested DNA and isotopes to ask, and answer, ...
"I have found two or three rich guys, but I found a couple hundred middle class and even some desperately poor people who ...
New DNA analysis of skeletal remains from Pompeii reveals that victims of Vesuvius’s eruption have been wrongly identified.
Archaeologists have discovered the exceptionally well-preserved remains of two men scalded to death by the volcanic eruption that destroyed the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in 79 AD, the Italian ...
Italy's Pompeii is the stuff of legend, conjuring images of humans huddled or sprawled as if in torment, forever encased in the massive cloud of hot ash from nearby Mount Vesuvius, which erupted in 79 ...
The seat is across from the entrance to the Villa of the Mysteries, a large property full of beautiful frescoes located just ...