Nearly 2,000 years ago, Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii. Now, new research is digging deeper into what really ...
When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, it buried cities like Pompeii and Herculaneum under layers of ash and pumice, freezing a moment in time. Among the artifacts preserved were hundreds of papyrus ...
Centuries on and it turns out that long-held assumptions about some of the people of Pompeii should not have been set in stone. New DNA analysis of skeletal remains in the doomed Roman town has ...