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.

In “The Buried City,” a meditation on both the ruins of Pompeii and his life as a pioneering archaeologist, Mr. Zuchtriegel ...

A new genetic analysis of 14 bodies recovered from Pompeii is casting doubt on some of the initial interpretations of their identities before the cataclysmic volcanic eruption.A team of ...

Two famous victims of the volcanic eruption that devastated Pompeii 2,000 years ago, long thought to be women and dubbed the “Two Maidens”, may have in fact been a heterosexual couple, DNA ...

Ancient DNA sequenced from bone fragments preserved within the plaster casts at the Pompeii site has upended some long-held assumptions about bodies found together.

The continuing discoveries at Pompeii 05:42. ... Observers see stories in the plaster casts later made of their bodies, like a mother holding a child and two women embracing as they die.

When those people’s flesh decayed, it left behind bones and body-shaped hollows in the ash. Since 1863, more than 100 casts of Pompeii’s victims have been made by pouring liquid plaster into ...

Ancient DNA has revealed surprises about the identities of some people who perished in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii after a volcanic eruption, overturning misconceptions about their genetic ...

Since excavations of the ruins of Pompeii began in the 1700s, more than 100 casts of the victims’ bodies have been made by pouring liquid plaster in the voids left by the destruction of their ...

Their decomposed bodies were preserved by the ash, and archaeologists were able to reconstruct their forms using plaster casts of the cavities they left behind. More than 100 casts have been made ...

Pompeii's victims were later immortalized by archaeologists who used plaster to fill the voids left by their bodies and observers have long created stories based on these casts, one of which was ...

Over 1,900 years later, new genetic research is rewriting much of what historians and archaeologists believed about Pompeii’s people. In a study published Wednesday in Current Biology, researchers ...