In 79 CE, the active volcanic system in southern Italy known as Somma-Vesuvius erupted, burying the small Roman town of ...

DNA analysis at Pompeii did more than challenge assumptions about family ties; it also revealed the diverse ancestry of ...

The results, published Nov. 7 in Current Biology, reveal that some of the stories told for decades about the individuals’ ...

The study builds upon research from 2022 when scientists sequenced the genome of a Pompeii victim for the first time and ...