In a city buried under feet of ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, archaeologists have announced ...

Italy's Minister of Culture Alessandro ... were killed instantly. As people fled Pompeii or hid in their homes, their bodies were covered by blankets of the surge. While Pliny did not estimate ...

The eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 was ... After the eruption, bodies of the victims at Pompeii were famously preserved in a protective shell of ash before they eventually decayed.

From ancient Roman structures under homes to Viking jewelry in a wetland, here are some of the latest archaeological ...

Observers see stories in the plaster casts later made of their bodies, like a mother holding ... University and the University of Florence in Italy, relied on genetic material preserved for ...

Researchers have sequenced DNA from Pompeii ... Italy, CNN quoted. Originally, remains found in certain places were thought ...

Italian culture minister Alessandro ... Since the mid 1800s, the voids left by the bodies have been filled with plaster to recreate their final moments. Pompeii remains a well-preserved ...