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Pompeii’s ‘Two Maidens’ locked in dying embrace are a heterosexual couple, DNA analysis suggests
Two famous victims of the volcanic eruption that devastated Pompeii 2,000 years ago ... a golden bracelet and was believed to be a mother with her child on her lap. But DNA evidence now reveals ...
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Prayer to Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompeii
The divine Child we behold on thy knees ... Queen of the Rosary of Valle di Pompeii. Mother dear, only refuge of sinners, supreme comforter of the afflicted, blessed be thy name, now and forever, on ...
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New DNA tests of Pompeii dead upend popular stories
Plaster casts of calcified Pompeii residents have long ... The presumed nuclear family — including a mother wearing the distinctive bracelet, with a child on her lap — turned out to be four ...
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DNA analysis of Pompeii victims rewrites the history of the 2,000-year-old tragic volcanic eruption
Recent research may have reshaped our understanding of the victims of Pompeii ... a golden bracelet and holding a child — long thought to be a mother and child — was actually an unrelated ...