So it's perhaps overdue for evidence of a literal volcano — a historic natural disaster — to hit the campus of Elvis ...

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

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

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

The devastation of Pompeii by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE is one of the best-recorded disasters in human history. The ash and pumice that rained down preserved traces of the dying where they ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New DNA analysis of the charred victims of the Pompeii disaster in 79AD has rewritten history about some of the doomed town’s residents. The giant Mount Vesuvius eruption released a 20ft layer ...

An estimated 10 percent of Pompeii’s 20,000 or so inhabitants ... At the time of the disaster, the Empire’s trade routes extended from North Africa to Asia, and people moved to Rome by choice ...

New DNA analysis of the charred victims of the Pompeii disaster in 79AD has rewritten history about some of the doomed town’s residents. The giant Mount Vesuvius eruption released a 20ft layer of ash ...