New Discovery at Pompeii Rewrites 2,000 Years of History

#pompeii #archaeology #ancientrome Who were the people of Pompeii, really? For more than a century, the famous plaster casts of Pompeii have inspired some of the most moving stories in archaeology: a mother holding her child, two sisters side by side. Now, new excavations in the city's largely unexplored Regio IX and a groundbreaking ancient DNA study of the casts have rewritten those stories and revealed a Pompeii no one expected. #Pompeii #Vesuvius #RegioIX #AncientRome #AncientDNA #Archaeology #AncientHistory #RomanHistory #HistoryDocumentary