Ancient DNA has revealed surprises about the identities of some people who perished in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii ...

In mere minutes, the giant cloud of ash and gases killed an estimated 2,000 people, many of whom were unearthed more than a ...

Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii shows that people found holding one another beneath the volcanic ash weren’t related in ...

Analysis of ancient DNA from the ashen casts of Pompeii victims changes presumed relationships between them, and reveals the ...

All living things have a blueprint provided by the DNA that is stored in every one of their cells. Yet the amount of DNA in ...

Scientists studying the remains of people who died in the devastating Mount Vesuvius eruption that buried the ancient city of ...

A DNA expert today claimed there was a “serious problem” with the DNA on the knife allegedly used to kill Cash App founder ...

Geneticists looking inside the nuclear genome for mutations that contribute to disease have long relied on a principal known ...

In 79 CE, the active volcanic system in southern Italy known as Somma-Vesuvius erupted, burying the small Roman town of ...

New DNA evidence has been released showing that the victims of the 79AD Pompeii disaster are not who we originally thought ...

Using DNA taken from fragmented skeletal remains, researchers found an adult holding a child, long thought to have been a ...