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

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.The DNA evidence shows that the four people were all males and not related to each other at all, according to the study.

The study claims that many of the residents of Pompeii had migrated there from the eastern Mediterranean, from places such as Turkey, North Africa, and Lebanon.

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