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  2. A DNA Discovery Shatters the Truth About Pompeii’s Famous Victims

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    Plastered Pompeii Victims’ DNA Corrects Record by Andrea Pucci - Getty Images Some of the victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 A.D. in Pompeii were cast in plaster to preserve the scene.

  3. 2 victims of ancient Pompeii eruption found, along with gold ...

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    An archaeologist works on the recently discovered remains of a victim in the archaeological site of the ancient city of Pompeii, which was destroyed in AD 79 by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, in ...

  4. Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD - Wikipedia

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    The casts of some victims in the so-called "Garden of the Fugitives", Pompeii Apart from Pliny the Elder, the only casualties of the eruption to be known by name were the Herodian princess Drusilla and her son Agrippa, who was born in her marriage with the procurator Antonius Felix . [ 42 ]

  5. Garden of the Fugitives - Wikipedia

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    The Garden of the Fugitives (Italian: Orto dei Fuggiaschi) [1] is an archaeological site located in the ancient destroyed city of Pompeii, in Regio 1 Insula 21. [2] [3] It contains the casts of 13 victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. [4]

  6. Pompeii DNA evidence leads to surprising new discovery about ...

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    In 79 AD, Italy’s Mount Vesuvius exploded, raining ash and volcanic debris down on the city of Pompeii and its tens of thousands of residents. In mere minutes, the giant cloud of ash and gases ...

  7. Erotic art in Pompeii and Herculaneum - Wikipedia

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    Venus was the divine protector of Pompeii, and featured in many frescoes around the city. [15] The goddess of love, sex, and fertility, Venus was closely associated with eroticism and prostitution in ancient Rome. [16] The mural of Venus from Pompeii may have been a Roman copy of the then famous painting by Apelles which Lucian mentioned ...

  8. DNA analysis upends long-held assumptions about Pompeii ... - AOL

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    Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii shows that people found holding one another beneath the volcanic ash weren’t related in the ways we think. DNA analysis upends long-held assumptions about ...

  9. Pompeii - Wikipedia

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    Pompeii (/ p ɒ m ˈ p eɪ (i)/ ⓘ pom-PAY(-ee), Latin: [pɔmˈpei̯.iː]) was a city in what is now the municipality of Pompei, near Naples, in the Campania region of Italy.Along with Herculaneum, Stabiae, and many surrounding villas, the city was buried under 4 to 6 m (13 to 20 ft) of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.