Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii upends long-held …
6 days ago · CNN —. 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 ...
New DNA evidence rewrites long-told stories of people in ancient Pompeii
Nov 7, 2024 · 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, like a mother holding a child and two women embracing as they die. But new DNA evidence suggests things were not as they seem ...
New DNA evidence upends assumptions about Pompeii victims
5 days ago · New DNA evidence upends what we thought we knew about Pompeii victims. November 9, 20246:00 AM ET. Emma Bowman. Jewelry found in the ruins of a house in Pompeii are displayed, backdropped by the ...
DNA Evidence Is Rewriting the Stories of Victims Who Perished in ...
2 days ago · 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 ...
DNA shows Pompeii’s dead aren’t who we thought they were
6 days ago · Drawing on multiple studies demonstrating that it is possible to retrieve DNA from both human and animal remains in Pompeii, they managed to extract genetic information from some of those plaster ...
New DNA evidence upends what we thought we knew about Pompeii …
5 days ago · 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.
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. "The scientific data we provide do not always align with common assumptions," says geneticist David Reich of Harvard University.
First DNA from Pompeii body casts illuminates who victims were
NEWS; 07 November 2024; First DNA from Pompeii body casts illuminates who victims were. The sex and ancestry of five people who died in the eruption are revealed by genetic material embedded in ...
Ancient DNA Challenges Stories Told About Pompeii Victims
Nov 7, 2024 · Researchers retrieved the DNA in conjunction with the Archaeological Park of Pompeii during restoration of 86 damaged casts in 2015. The results, published Nov. 7 in Current Biology, reveal that some of the stories told for decades about the individuals’ sexes and family relationships, which were based on the casts’ physical appearance and ...
Pompeii DNA evidence contradicts long-held assumptions about …
6 days ago · 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 ...
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