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Researchers Sequence Genome of Man Who Died at Pompeii
2,000-year-old DNA is revealing more about the people who died during the fateful eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The superheated ...
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Scientists Have Been Able To Fully Sequence The DNA Of A Man Who Died In Pompeii
For the very first time, scientists have been able to fully sequence the DNA of a man who died in the eruption. His remains ...
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Bodies of man and his slave unearthed from ashes at Pompeii
Pompeii officials said the men apparently escaped the initial fall of ash from Mount Vesuvius then succumbed ... left by the decaying bodies in the ash and pumice that rained down from the volcano ...
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Evidence of more than 200 survivors of Mount Vesuvius eruption discovered in ancient Roman records
On Aug. 24, in A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, shooting over 3 cubic miles of debris up to 20 miles (32.1 kilometers) in the air. As the ash and rock fell to Earth, it buried the ancient cities ...
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Digging on the Dark Side of the Volcano
The north slope of Mount Vesuvius has largely been ignored archaeologically compared ... There are stories embedded there, ...
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The History Of Pompeii: The City Buried Under Volcanic Ash
However, in 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius erupted ... In an attempt to preserve the bodies found at Pompeii, a team poured plaster into the soft cavities of the ash around 30 feet from the surface.
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Archaeologists find records of Pompeii survivors that reveal how they rebuilt their lives
On Aug. 24, in A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, shooting over 3 cubic miles of debris up to 20 miles (32.1 kilometers) in the air. As the ash and rock fell to Earth, it buried the ancient cities ...
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The Children of Pompeii Saw Gladiators Fight to the Death—and They Drew Graffiti About It
Researchers recently discovered bloodshed-themed stick-figure sketches in a cluster of houses in the doomed ancient city ...
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Records of Pompeii’s survivors have been found – and archaeologists are starting to understand how they rebuilt their lives
On Aug. 24, in A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, shooting over 3 cubic miles of debris up to 20 miles (32.1 kilometers) in the air. As the ash and rock fell to Earth, it buried the ancient cities ...
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Did Vesuvius bury the home of the first Roman emperor?
“Excavations around Mount Vesuvius have been ongoing since the ... Our vibrant student body of around 15,000 undergraduate and 15,000 graduate students includes over 4,000 international students.
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Tourist rescued from Mt. Vesuvius crater
ROME — An American tourist had to be rescued on Mount Vesuvius near Naples after he apparently slipped into the Italian volcano’s crater while trying to recover his fallen cellphone ...
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Digging on the Dark Side of the Volcano
Having reached his mid-seventies, Rome’s first emperor, Caesar Augustus, lived out his final days in a villa near the base of Mount Vesuvius ... the plaster casts of bodies that eerily capture ...