Nature

First DNA from Pompeii body casts illuminates who victims were

Editor’s note: this article includes a photograph of a plaster cast of a person who died at Pompeii. Bits of human bone recovered from Pompeii, Italy, have yielded DNA from people who died during the ...
Ars Technica

DNA shows Pompeii’s dead aren’t who we thought they were

People have long been fascinated by the haunting plaster casts of the bodies of people who died in Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE. Archaeologists have presented certain popular ...
Earth.com

Victims of the Pompeii volcano were not who we've been told, according to DNA study

Scientists sampled tiny bone fragments sealed inside several Pompeii casts and tested DNA and isotopes to ask, and answer, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

DNA Evidence Is Rewriting the Stories of Victims Who Perished in Pompeii Nearly 2,000 Years Ago

Four plaster casts from the House of the Golden Bracelet were made in 1974. Archaeological Park of Pompeii In the ruins of Pompeii, visitors aren’t only able to see the houses, frescos and artifacts ...
insider.si.edu

Destroy the copy - plaster cast collections in the 19th-20th centuries demolition, defacement, disposal in Europe and beyond edited by Annetta Alexandridis and Lorenz Winkler ...

Introduction / Annetta Alexandridis and Lorenz Winkler-Horaček -- I. (Post)colonial contexts -- Introduction / Annetta Alexandridis -- The (mis)performance of cast collections / Henrik Holm -- The ...