Archaeologists at Pompeii have uncovered the remains of an unfortunate man who was decapitated by an enormous rock while fleeing ... was this lethal cloud which struck their newest discovery ...

Archeologists at Pompeii have recovered well-preserved skeletal remains of a man and woman who died clutching ... However, ...

One was probably a man of high status, and the other his slave, officials at the Pompeii archaeological park said. They "were perhaps seeking refuge" from the eruption "when they were swept away ...

Two famous victims of the volcanic eruption that devastated Pompeii 2,000 years ago ... eternal embrace after the ancient Roman town was hit by suffocating clouds of ash and volcanic debris ...

Ash and volcanic rock called pumice then covered Pompeii and its residents ... an engraved iron ring bearing a female figurine. The man was thin and about 6 feet (1.85 meters) tall, and based ...

only the man's skull yielded sufficient DNA for a full analysis, Scorrano said. Prior to this study, only short stretches of human and animal DNA from Pompeii had been sequenced. After comparing ...