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Sunday, 17 November 2024

New DNA evidence proves popular narratives about Pompeii victims are entirely false: study

 Vesuvius erupted.New DNA evidence from the ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii reveal that many of the presumptuous narratives about the charred victims are entirely false, according to a new study.

Researchers, including some from Harvard University, focused on fourteen of the castings of bodies that were created in the late 1880s to preserve the remains of the victims of the historic volcanic eruption, according to the study published in the journal Current Biology.

The team extracted DNA from the remains of those skeletons and conducted genetic tests to figure out where they were from — and to check out the long-running narrative biographical theories generated about the anonymous charred bodies.

In one notable domicile, known as "the house of the golden bracelet," it was assumed for ages that a mother and child held each other as they were consumed by molten lava.

The house was named for a piece of jewelry worn by the adult with the child. Nearby those remains, another adult and child, which were assumed to be the other members of the nuclear family....<<<Read More>>>...