For the first time, scientists have identified the entire genetic makeup of a victim of the deadly Mount Vesuvius eruption nearly 2,000 years ago
Scientists fully sequence the genetic material from a victim of the cataclysm that killed thousands in central Italy in A.D. 79
The man’s skeletal remains were first discovered in 1932-33 during the excavation of a Pompeian building known as Casa del Fabbro, or House of the Blacksmith.When Italy’s Mount Vesuvius, a cloud of superheated ash killed thousands in and around the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum—including a middle-aged man who perished in an instant as he rested on a chaise lounge inside a Pompeian home.
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