In the ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii, houses, frescos, and artifacts have been preserved for visitors to observe. They can also see some of Pompeii's victims, who were immortalized by 19th ...

more work is needed to fully understand Pompeii’s past, including genetic analysis. Research is ongoing at the site, and scientists can use both the casts and skeletons of the victims to better ...

The museum's current exhibition, Pompeii ... the casts in the exhibition provide the main intimation of the horrific deaths suffered by some 2,000 Pompeiian victims. As our eyewitness Pliny ...

When an ancient Roman resident of the coastal city Herculaneum was struck down by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, what ...

Ever since archaeologists first discovered the ruins of Pompeii – the ancient Roman city buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 – its stories and secrets have captivated locals, tourists ...

Casts were created from the voids in the late ... The study builds upon research from 2022 when scientists sequenced the genome of a Pompeii victim for the first time and confirmed the possibility ...

Concrete casts of the victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption, at a museum in the ancient city of Pompeii, southern Italy, in 1866. (Photo by Hulton Archive / Getty Images) Moreover, audiences ...

This is a cast of the famous bronze statuette of a dancing faun or satyr from the Tuscan impluvium of the House of the Faun at Pompeii (Pompeii VI.12.2), for which the house is named. The lean, ...