Pompeii, DNA

A DNA Discovery Shatters the Truth About Pompeii’s Famous Victims
A new study— published in Current Biology by a team of researchers at Harvard University and the Archaeological Park of Pompeii in Naples, Italy—asserts that ancient DNA taken from some of the victims challenges stories long told about those particular Pompeii citizens.
DNA Evidence Is Rewriting the Stories of Victims Who Perished in Pompeii Nearly 2,000 Years Ago
In the ruins of Pompeii, visitors aren’t only able to see the houses, frescos and artifacts of the ancient city’s people. They can also “see” the people themselves: plaster casts of Pompeii citizens’ burned bodies,
DNA evidence reveals new clues about Pompeii's eruption victims
DNA evidence reshapes the story of Pompeii's 79 AD eruption victims, challenging old assumptions and revealing new insights into their lives.
Pompeii DNA evidence contradicts long-held assumptions about victims buried in ash
New DNA analysis of skeletal remains from Pompeii reveals that victims of Vesuvius’s eruption have been wrongly identified.
Pompeii victims aren't who we thought they were, DNA analysis reveals
DNA analysis of victims in Pompeii who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption reveals some unusual relations between the people who died together.
DNA analysis upends long-held assumptions about Pompeii victims’ final moments
Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii shows that people found holding one another beneath the volcanic ash weren’t related in the ways we think.
New DNA evidence upends what we thought we knew about Pompeii victims
The findings, which used DNA from the plaster casts of people who died in the Mt. Vesuvius eruption two millennia ago, challenge the traditional gender and familial assumptions about the Pompeiians.
New DNA Testing of Pompeii Victims Just Shattered Long-Held Beliefs
The results of new DNA tests just dropped this week, and they prove that we don't know as much about Pompeii as we once believed.
DNA rewrites history of Pompeii victims buried in volcanic eruption centuries ago
Researchers have studied the DNA preserved in the skeletal remains of Pompeii volcanic eruption victims. In 79 CE, the violent eruption of the Somma-Vesuvius volcanic system engulfed the Roman town of Pompeii. This massive eruption trapped its inhabitants beneath a thick layer of volcanic ash, and led to the preservation of many bodies.
Pompeii's New DNA Analysis Challenges Centuries-Old Assumptions About Victims' Lives
A recent DNA study has upended long-held theories about the people who died in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, revealing unexpected details about the demographics and connections among the victims.
Pompeii DNA study shatters myths about their ancient lives
Fourteen miles southeast of modern Naples lies Pompeii, a city frozen in time by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. What was once a bustling Roman town became a sprawling graveyard,
DNA shows Pompeii’s dead aren’t who we thought they were
Drawing on multiple studies demonstrating that it is possible to retrieve DNA from both human and animal remains in Pompeii, ...
New DNA evidence at Pompeii reveals surprises about identities of Vesuvius eruption victims
DNA evidence showed the four were male and not related to one another, clearly showing "the story that was long spun around these individuals" was wrong, Mittnik said. Researchers also confirmed ...
With DNA, Pompeii Narratives Take a Twist
In 79 A.D., a volcanic eruption engulfed a town’s residents. They weren’t all who scientists thought, newly extracted genetic ...
The truth behind embracing figures found in ancient Pompeii
This week, uncover the secrets of Pompeii through ancient DNA, meet an adventurous emperor penguin, seek signs of mysterious ...
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Pompeii excavations continue to fascinate
The casts of two people who died about 2,000 years ago in the house of the cryptoporticus in Pompeii. A new DNA analysis ...