Volcanic ash covered and preserved many of the bodies. The remains of the town were initially discovered in 1599 and by the 19th Century, ... Pompeii body casts. CREDIT: ...

Several bodies were found in the "Villa of the Mysteries" in 1909–1910, known for its decorative frescoes dedicated to Bacchus, the god of wine, religious ecstasy, and fertility.

A new study says the Pompeii idea is highly appealing―and totally wrong. Instead, the creatures were preserved by more mundane events including collapses of burrows and rainy periods that built ...

Then, before their bodies could collapse or rot, they were preserved in place by a slow-moving lahar. Now, excavations at Lujiatun continue – with new discoveries each year.

Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered two immaculately preserved statues which depict a man ... by the E-Journal of the Excavations of Pompeii. “Both the bodies and heads of the well-to-do ...

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 ...

The continuing discoveries at Pompeii 05:42. When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in stone for centuries ...

POMPEII, Italy (WKRC) - Archaeologists excavating the buried city of Pompeii discovered a pair of bodies clutching a trove of precious metals and jewelry. Before 2023, an area of Pompeii called ...

On July 8, the exhibition“Encountering Pompeii: The Eternal City” opened at the Hunan Museum's Special Exhibition Hall 1. It ...

In the 1880s, archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli made plaster casts of 104 of the Pompeii victims by pouring liquid chalk into the ash shell of bodies once made of soft tissue that had since decomposed.

Archaeologists long thought these two embracing bodies found at Pompeii were sisters, a mother and daughter, or lovers. Ancient DNA analysis revealed both to be young people, and one of them is male.