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

Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii shows that people found holding one another beneath the volcanic ash weren’t related in ...

"Monitoring cryptic species and monitoring at scale is a challenge which airborne eDNA may be able to address." ...

In mere minutes, the giant cloud of ash and gases killed an estimated 2,000 people, many of whom were unearthed more than a ...

FILE – Jewelry found in the ruins of a house in Pompeii are displayed, backdropped by the casts of two adults and two ...

DNA analysis of victims in Pompeii who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption reveals some unusual relations between the people who ...

A study published Thursday retold some famous stories about Pompeii citizens before they died from the eruption of Mount ...

New DNA analysis of skeletal remains from Pompeii reveals that victims of Vesuvius’s eruption have been wrongly identified.

In 79 A.D., a volcanic eruption engulfed a town’s residents. They weren’t all who scientists thought, newly extracted genetic ...

The octogenarian stabbed the hitchhiker in the back after she refused his request for "sexual contact," according to court ...

The results, published Nov. 7 in Current Biology, reveal that some of the stories told for decades about the individuals’ ...