(credit: Parco archeologico di Pompei/Handout via REUTERS) Recent efforts to restore and analyze Pompeii’s human casts, ...

Pompeii’s plaster cast human figures aren't who they were assumed to be, genetic tests have revealed, highlighting the way idealised stories can be projected onto archaeological evidence.

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Plaster casts of calcified Pompeii residents have long been used by archaeologists to tell the stories of the last, desperate moments of ancient Romans before they were buried and preserved in ...

However, they do not contain human remains, suggesting that few of Pompeii’s residents remained alive. At 8.05pm, the eruption stopped. But the ordeal was not over, as an earthquake may have ...

HISTORIANS have mapped out a minute-by-minute account of the final moments of Pompeii – as gas and ash transformed locals into glass. A staggering 16,000 people were buried during one of the ...

Visitors will also be able to see replicas of casts of some of Mount Vesuvius’ victims. The exhibition is focused on the “real, lived human experience” in Pompeii in an effort to help modern ...

Recent research may have reshaped our understanding of the victims of Pompeii, the ancient Roman ... By analysing ancient DNA extracted from the plaster casts of 14 victims, researchers have ...