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.
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.
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.
WATCH: New DNA results questions long-time assumptions regarding Pompeii victims
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 tragedy that struck the ancient town.
DNA analysis rewrites the stories of people buried in Pompeii
Genetic analysis of five individuals preserved as plaster casts in the ruins of Pompeii contradicts established beliefs about the people and their relationships
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, they managed to extract genetic information from some of those plaster casts containing highly fragmented skeletal remains,
New DNA tests of Pompeii dead upend popular stories
Plaster casts of calcified Pompeii residents have long been used by archaeologists to tell the stories of the last, desperate moments of ancient Romans before they were buried and preserved in pyroclastic ash from Mount Vesuvius in A.
DNA reveals new stories about Pompeii’s victims
A new genetic analysis of 14 bodies recovered from Pompeii is casting doubt on some of the initial interpretations of their identities before the cataclysmic volcanic eruption. A team of archaeologists and geneticists used a new genomic analysis to find out more about who these individuals were.
New DNA evidence rewrites long-told stories of people in ancient Pompeii
Jewelry found in the ruins of a house in Pompeii are displayed, backdropped by the casts of two adults and two children who died together in the house in Pompeii, at the exhibition, “Life and death Pompeii and Herculaneum,
Some of Pompeii’s victims were not who they seemed to be, DNA suggests
It’s one of the many stories told by observers of the victims of the tragedy that struck the ancient town. But DNA evidence recently published in Current Biology suggests things were not as they seem.
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New genetic study debunks long-held assumptions about Pompeii's tragic figures
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD destroyed the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, trapping dozens of residents in their ...
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