A new study— published in Current Biology by a team of researchers at Harvard University and the Archaeological Park of ...

A new study has shattered historians' long-held assumptions about some of the people who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption in ...

Pompeii Archaeological Park near Naples will set a limit on the amount of people who are visiting the ancient location after ...

Analysis of ancient DNA from the ashen casts of Pompeii victims changes presumed relationships between them, and reveals the ...

Fourteen miles southeast of modern Naples lies Pompeii, a city frozen in time by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius ...

The preserved Roman city of Pompeii will have new visitor limits to combat overtourism and protect the archeological park.

Plaster casts of calcified Pompeii residents have long been used by archaeologists to tell the stories of the last, desperate ...

The body was first found to be of a male, likely around 30 years of age. At first, archaeologists believed that he had ...

New DNA evidence challenges the story of Pompeii's Two Maidens, once thought to be female relatives, scientists now call them gay lovers.

The 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius and its impact on Pompeii has been heavily studied by historians and archaeologists over ...

Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii shows that people found holding one another beneath the volcanic ash weren’t related in ...

Last week, with the use of DNA, researchers revealed that long-held assumptions missed the mark, providing tantalizing ...