Pompeii DNA Overturns Long-Held Assumptions About Its Victims

[Still Waters]

The devastation of Pompeii by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE is one of the best-recorded disasters in human history. The ash and pumice that rained down preserved traces of the dying where they fell, leaving us to guess the identities and relationships of the people left frozen in time.

But we humans are imperfect. We navigate the world with perceptions and biases that cloud our observations, no matter how we try to remain objective. A new analysis of DNA retrieved from the victims of Pompeii reveals our assumptions about them were wrong – a discovery that is giving us insight into the bustling life of Pompeii, before a volcano snuffed it out.

https://www.sciencealert.com/pompeii-dna-overturns-long-held-assumptions-about-its-victims

The research has been published in Current Biology.

[Ell]

No ***** DNA at all.

All of them African people boarding airplanes in those days to travel to all kinds of destinations in Europe, as we have been assured by various 'scientists', yet not one went sight-seeing in Pompeii when the volcano blew.

Maybe we will have better luck with the next - seventh - DNA sample from Pompeii ...

[Piney]

3 hours ago, Ell said:

No ***** DNA at all.

@Abramelin You hit the nail....

3 hours ago, Ell said:

All of them African people boarding airplanes in those days to travel to all kinds of destinations in Europe, as we have been assured by various 'scientists', yet not one went sight-seeing in Pompeii when the volcano blew.

Maybe we will have better luck with the next - seventh - DNA sample from Pompeii ...

On the head.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

 

[CrimsonKing]

3 minutes ago, Piney said:

@Abramelin You hit the nail....

On the head.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

 

Archie Bunker entered the room 😆

[Piney]

11 minutes ago, CrimsonKing said:

Archie Bunker entered the room 😆

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Funny thing though. Carroll O'Connor fought racism his entire career.