WATCH: New DNA results questions long-time assumptions regarding Pompeii victims
POMPEII, Italy (KMID/KPEJ) – A family frozen in time by the volcanic eruption that hit Pompeii nearly two millennia ago. A mother, a father, and two children…one of the many stories invented by observers of the plaster casts made of the victims of the ...
Ancient DNA leads to surprising discovery about Pompeii’s victims
In 79 AD, Italy’s Mount Vesuvius exploded, raining ash and volcanic debris down on the city of Pompeii and its tens of thousands of residents. In mere minutes, the giant cloud of ash and gases killed an estimated 2,000 people, many of whom were unearthed ...
When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in ...
Plaster casts of Pompeii’s victims preserve moments of human connection as the A.D. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried ...
Researchers have studied the DNA preserved in the skeletal remains of Pompeii volcanic eruption victims. In 79 CE, the ...
New DNA evidence from the ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii reveal that many of the presumptuous narratives about the ...
New Scientist on MSN15h
DNA analysis rewrites the stories of people buried in PompeiiGenetic analysis of five individuals preserved as plaster casts in the ruins of Pompeii contradicts established beliefs about ...
In 79 A.D., a volcanic eruption engulfed a town’s residents. They weren’t all who scientists thought, newly extracted genetic ...
Feathers and other intact soft tissue samples found in some of the fossils even helped prove that modern birds almost ...
The Associated Press on MSN14h
New DNA evidence rewrites long-told stories of people in ancient PompeiiThe study builds upon research from 2022 when scientists sequenced the genome of a Pompeii victim for the first time and ...
An international study has found assumptions on the sex and relationships of individuals found in the ruins of the ancient ...
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