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>>>...