When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved for centuries.
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FILE - A view of Pompeii, a buried and ruined Roman city near modern Naples in Italy, is seen in 1979. FILE - Jewelry found in the ruins of a house in Pompeii are displayed, backdropped by the casts of two adults and two children who died together in the house in Pompeii, at the exhibition,"Life and death Pompeii and Herculaneum," at the British Museum in central London, March 26, 2013.
The team, which also includes scientists from Harvard University and the University of Florence in Italy, relied on genetic material preserved for nearly two millennia. After Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed the Roman city in 79 A.D., bodies buried in mud and ash eventually decomposed, leaving spaces where they used to be. Casts were created from the voids in the late 1800s.
DNA evidence showed the four were male and not related to one another, clearly showing “the story that was long spun around these individuals” was wrong, Mittnik said.
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