{"id":123530,"date":"2024-11-08T16:33:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T09:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=123530"},"modified":"2024-11-08T16:33:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T09:33:47","slug":"new-dna-evidence-proves-popular-narratives-about-pompeii-victims-are-entirely-false-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=123530","title":{"rendered":"New DNA evidence proves popular narratives about Pompeii victims are entirely false: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>New DNA evidence from the ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii reveal that many of the presumptuous narratives about the charred victims are entirely false, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers, including some from Harvard University, focused on fourteen of the castings of bodies that were created in the late 1880s to preserve the remains of the victims of the historic volcanic eruption, according to the study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/abstract\/S0960-9822(24)01361-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published in the journal Current Biology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>People walk through the husk of Pompeii, in 1979, 1,900 years after it was engulfed in ash and lava when Mount Vesuvius erupted. <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>A study finds that popular narratives about the Pompeii victims are false.<br \/>\n <span class=\"credit\">Archeological Park of Pompeii<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The team extracted DNA from the remains of those skeletons and conducted genetic tests to figure out where they were from \u2014 and to check out the long-running narrative biographical theories generated about the anonymous charred bodies.<\/p>\n<p>In one notable domicile, known as \u201cthe house of the golden bracelet,\u201d it was assumed for ages that a mother and child held each other as they were consumed by molten lava. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The house was named for a piece of jewelry worn by the adult with the child. Nearby those remains, another adult and child, which were assumed to be the other members of the nuclear family.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Researchers extracted DNA from the remains of skeletons to figure out where they were from. <span class=\"credit\">Archeological Park of Pompeii<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The DNA evidence shows that the four people were all males and not related to each other at all, according to the study. <\/p>\n<p>Another famous pair frozen in time were long considered to be sisters locked in embrace. At least one of those people was a genetic male, the study found. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><figcaption>An aerial view of Pompeii, which is in southern Italy near the city of Naples. <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe were able to disprove or challenge some of the previous narratives built upon how these individuals were kind of found in relation to each other,\u201d said Alissa Mittnik of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pompeii-ancient-dna-mount-vesuvius-e238247d5b24d74aaa1b8e26465bb546\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to the Associated Press<\/a>. \u201cIt opens up different interpretations for who these people might have been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut of course we don\u2019t really know, and we can\u2019t really say, who these individuals were and how they interacted with each other,\u201d Mittnik added, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/07\/science\/archaeology-dna-pompeii.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The study claims that many of the residents of Pompeii had migrated there from the eastern Mediterranean, from places such as Turkey, North Africa, and Lebanon. <\/p>\n<p>Others were from Sardinia and mainland Italy. Researchers say they were surprised by the genetic diversity, which they attributed to social factors like migrations, slavery and conquest.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The study claims that many of the residents of Pompeii had migrated there from the eastern Mediterranean. <span class=\"credit\">Archeological Park of Pompeii<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Jewelry found in the ruins of a house in Pompeii, with casts of four victims in the background, on exhibit at the British Museum in central London. <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSome of those from whom we were able to generate genome-wide data showed a more eastern Mediterranean-like genetic ancestry, which could match populations, for example, from the Aegean or from the Levant,\u201d Mittnik said, according to the Times. \u201cSo, they might be either recent migrants or the descendants of migrants from those regions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the year 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius erupted, killing ten percent of Pompeii\u2019s 20,000 residents \u2014 coating their remains and the ruins of the city in ash. That coating preserved the remains of the citizens of Pompeii for nearly two millennia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/08\/13\/lifestyle\/skeletons-of-man-woman-clutching-coins-found-at-pompeii-site\/\">Earlier this year<\/a>, archaeologists at Pompeii discovered two well preserved skeletons \u2014 a man and woman who died clutching treasures.<\/p>\n<p>It was also revealed in a study published in Frontiers in Earth Science that the Italian city <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/07\/19\/lifestyle\/pompeii-hit-by-earthquakes-after-mt-vesuvius-eruption-scientists\/\">suffered a significant earthquake<\/a> which played a significant role in the destruction of Pompeii.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/11\/07\/world-news\/popular-narratives-about-pompeii-victims-drastically-wrong-study\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New DNA evidence from the ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii reveal that many of the presumptuous narratives about the charred victims are entirely false, according to a new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=123530\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}