The plaster casts of Pompeii's victims have long stood as some of the most haunting reminders of the eruption of Mount ...

Sixty years after the body was first discovered, advanced imaging techniques revealed a curious box that resembled the kind Roman doctors carried to treat patients.

A man who died in Pompeii during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 was carrying a medical kit with him, new scans ...

Archaeologists at the ancient Roman site of Pompeii have used artificial intelligence for the first time to digitally reconstruct the face of a victim of the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius that ...

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Archaeologists have found the skeletal remains of a woman and a man who died when the volcanic plumes of Mount Vesuvius wiped out the city of Pompeii nearly 2,000 years ago. The findings provide a ...

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Adults in ancient Rome were typically cremated, making the well-preserved skeleton an an unusual find. Alfio Giannotti / Archaeological Park of Pompeii Researchers have unearthed one of the most ...