Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii upends long-held …
Nov 8, 2024 · Ancient DNA has revealed surprises about the identities of some people who perished in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii after a volcanic eruption, overturning misconceptions about their genetic...
New DNA evidence rewrites long-told stories of people in ancient Pompeii
Nov 7, 2024 · Pompeii is located about 150 miles (241 kilometers) from Rome. The study builds upon research from 2022 when scientists sequenced the genome of a Pompeii victim for the first time and confirmed the possibility of retrieving ancient DNA from the …
New DNA evidence upends assumptions about Pompeii victims
Nov 9, 2024 · 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...
A DNA Discovery Shatters the Truth About Pompeii’s Famous …
6 days ago · A DNA Discovery Shatters the Truth About Pompeii’s Famous Victims. Some of the victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 A.D. in Pompeii were cast in plaster to preserve the scene. New DNA studies of those victims tell a different tale than what experts had previously speculated. Common interpretations of three well-known relationships ...
Pompeii DNA evidence contradicts long-held assumptions about …
Nov 8, 2024 · New DNA analysis of skeletal remains in the doomed Roman town has revealed that some of the victims of Mount Vesuvius’s eruption in A.D. 79 have been wrongly identified, highlighting how much...
Pompeii DNA Overturns Long-Held Assumptions About Its Victims
Nov 7, 2024 · A new analysis of DNA retrieved from the victims of Pompeii reveals our assumptions about them were wrong – a discovery that is giving us insight into the bustling life of Pompeii, before a volcano snuffed it out.
First DNA from Pompeii body casts illuminates who victims were
Nov 7, 2024 · Bits of human bone recovered from Pompeii, Italy, have yielded DNA from people who died during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius — and the genetic data are challenging old assumptions about the...
DNA Evidence Is Rewriting the Stories of Victims Who Perished in ...
Nov 12, 2024 · DNA Evidence Is Rewriting the Stories of Victims Who Perished in Pompeii Nearly 2,000 Years Ago. A new study has shattered historians’ long-held assumptions about some of the people who died in...
Ancient DNA Challenges Stories Told About Pompeii Victims
Nov 7, 2024 · An international team led by scientists at Harvard Medical School, the University of Florence, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology analyzed DNA from the remains of five people who died in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE and were cast in plaster nearly two millennia later.
New DNA Evidence Rewrites Long-Told Stories of People in Ancient Pompeii
Nov 7, 2024 · The study builds upon research from 2022 when scientists sequenced the genome of a Pompeii victim for the first time and confirmed the possibility of retrieving ancient DNA from the human...