People have long been fascinated by the haunting plaster casts of the bodies of people who died in Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE. Archaeologists have presented certain popular ...

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

Ancient DNA can reveal such details as the ancestry, sex and age of a long-dead person. But the biological material degrades over time, and in Pompeii, the DNA could have been further damaged by ...

Over the centuries, Pompeii and the dead were forgotten, remaining buried for almost two millennia until a farmer found part of the city beneath a vineyard in 1748. In the 19th century ...

Organized by the office of Pompeii’s archaeological superintendent, the exhibition includes nearly 500 objects (sculpture, jewelry, frescoes, household objects and plaster casts of the dead ...

Explosion ] -Pompeii -- a place whose very name conjures ... their lungs filled with the equivalent of hot, thick cement. The dead were encased in a deep layer of ash, which later hardened around ...

Unearthed during ongoing excavations of the tomb just outside the Porto Sarno entrance gates of the dead city ... and motherly relationships – the Pompeii archaeological park said in a statement ...

Another new discovery in the ruins of Pompeii has shed light on the wilder ... above the human figures shows animals – alive and dead – as well as sea creatures and seafood in baskets.

The new discoveries will help researchers better understand not just Pompeii but also gender and migration in the Roman Empire. Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week ...