A recent genetic study calls for a reexamination of the identities and relationships of several individuals buried and ...

A new study— published in Current Biology by a team of researchers at Harvard University and the Archaeological Park of Pompeii in Naples, Italy—asserts that ancient DNA taken from some of the victims ...

Credit: AP Photo/Jim Bourdier, File Jewelry found in the ruins of a house in Pompeii are displayed, backdropped by the casts of two adults and two children who died together in the house in ...

One Pompeii dwelling, known as "the house of the golden bracelet," was thought to hold a mother and child. The house was named after an intricate piece of jewelry that the adult wore, which ...

Jewelry found in the ruins of a house in Pompeii are displayed, backdropped by the casts of two adults and two children who died together in the house in Pompeii. Credit: AP New DNA evidence from ...