Some of the people who were buried in Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted may have been misidentified, according to fresh evidence.
Fourteen casts of victims discovered in the remains of the Roman city destroyed in 79 AD were subjected to DNA testing by researchers. By using DNA extracted from broken bone fragments they deduced that an adult cradling an infant and sporting a golden bracelet – long assumed to be the mother – was actually a man who had nothing to do with the child.
