The findings, which used DNA from the plaster casts of people who died in the Mt. Vesuvius eruption two millennia ago, challenge the traditional gender and familial assumptions about the Pompeiians.

New DNA evidence from the ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii reveal that many of the presumptuous narratives about the charred victims are entirely false, according to a new study.

But new DNA evidence suggests things were not as they seem — and these prevailing interpretations come from looking at the ancient world through modern eyes.

New DNA evidence rewrites long-told stories of people in ancient Pompeii The discovery opens up different interpretations for who these people might have been.

New DNA Evidence Rewrites Long-Told Stories of People in Ancient Pompeii When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in ...

Pompeii DNA evidence leads to surprising new discovery about victims - New information from the study of Pompeii plaster casts has challenged previous interpretations ...

The findings, which used DNA from the plaster casts of people who died in the Mt. Vesuvius eruption two millennia ago, challenge the traditional gender and familial assumptions about the Pompeiians.

New DNA evidence rewrites long-told stories of people in ancient Pompeii New research has uncovered several surprises about the last desperate moments of the citizens of the ancient city of Pompeii.

Centuries on and it turns out that long-held assumptions about some of the people of Pompeii should not have been set in stone. New DNA analysis of skeletal remains in the doomed Roman town has ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in stone for centuries.