A brain transmuted into glass by the famous volcano should have been impossible. Some scientists say it still is.

Using an X-ray, Llorenç and his team examine the bones hidden in Pompeii's plaster casts. The scan of one individual reveals striation on the knee, indicating the person suffered from osteoarthritis.

Pompeii’s plaster cast human figures aren't who they were assumed to be, genetic tests have revealed, highlighting the way ...

A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.

Going forward, more work is needed to fully understand Pompeii’s past ... were able to reconstruct their forms using plaster casts of the cavities they left behind. More than 100 casts have ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in stone for centuries. Observers see stories in the plaster casts later made ...

Ever since archaeologists first discovered the ruins of Pompeii – the ancient Roman city buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 – its stories and secrets have captivated locals, tourists ...

Inside a Lost City”, is an object lesson in the role that presentism plays in our contemporary understanding of the world, ...

Today, researchers from Harvard University (MA, USA) and the University of Florence (Italy) have collected DNA from the famed body casts of Pompeii and found that the history we’ve been told since the ...