New DNA evidence rewrites long-told stories of people in ancient Pompeii
When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in stone for centuries. Observers see stories in the plaster casts later made of their bodies,
New DNA evidence upends what we thought we knew about Pompeii victims
The findings, which used DNA from the plaster casts of people who died in the Mt. Vesuvius eruption two millennia ago, challenge the traditional gender and familial assumptions about the Pompeiians.
New DNA tests of Pompeii dead upend popular stories
Plaster casts of calcified Pompeii residents have long been used by archaeologists to tell the stories of the last, desperate moments of ancient Romans before they were buried and preserved in pyroclastic ash from Mount Vesuvius in A.
DNA reveals new stories about Pompeii’s victims
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 archaeologists and geneticists used a new genomic analysis to find out more about who these individuals were.
DNA results rewrite longtime Pompeii narrative
But new DNA evidence suggests things were not as they seem — and these prevailing interpretations come from looking at the ancient world through modern eyes. “We were able to disprove or challenge some of the previous narratives built upon how these individuals were kind of found in relation to each other,
DNA analysis of Pompeii victims rewrites the history of the 2,000-year-old tragic volcanic eruption
New DNA analysis of Pompeii victims reveals that many assumed family relationships based on proximity were incorrect.
DNA analysis upends long-held assumptions about Pompeii victims’ final moments
Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii shows that people found holding one another beneath the volcanic ash weren’t related in the ways we think.
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