The findings, which used DNA from the plaster casts of people who died in the Mt. Vesuvius eruption two millennia ago, challenge the traditional gender and familial assumptions about the Pompeiians.
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, are seen housed at the British Museum in London in 2013.
The bodies, later immortalized by plaster casts, inspired narratives about who the victims were: for example, a mother holding her child, and two sisters embracing in their final moments.
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