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

"Pompeii: The Exhibition" opens Nov. 15 at Graceland, featuring a collection artifacts from the ancient Roman city that was ...

People have long projected stories onto the poignant casts of Pompeii’s victims. A new study uses ancient DNA analysis to ...

Two famous victims of the volcanic eruption that devastated Pompeii 2,000 years ago, long thought to be women and dubbed the “Two Maidens”, may have in fact been a heterosexual couple, DNA studies ...

This week, uncover the secrets of Pompeii through ancient DNA, meet an adventurous emperor penguin, seek signs of mysterious ...

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

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 ...

Shocking DNA evidence finds that the identities of bodies at Pompeii are completely different than what scientists have ...

Learning more about the remains of people at Pompeii can help others appreciate those who lost their lives in the disaster, said Caitie Barrett, an associate professor in the department of ...

Image: Pompeii, a buried and ruined Roman city ... and the multi-cultural dynamic of the Roman Empire. Following the disaster, bodies buried in mud and ash eventually decomposed, leaving spaces ...

Pompeii is one of the most horrifying—but amazing—examples of how a disaster can provide a portal into the past. New research methods are making it possible to see more through that portal ...