Almost 2,000 Years Later, Scientists Map Genome of Resident of Pompeii

FRIDAY, May 27, 2022 (HealthDay News)

The DNA of a man who died in Pompeii, Italy, after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD is revealing surprising new secrets about the ancient world.

Scientists recently completed the first successfully sequenced human genome from a Pompeii victim. Until now, only short stretches of DNA had been sequenced from human and…