Revealing the Truth: DNA Evidence Changes How We Understand Pompeii's Victims.

A long time ago, a volcano erupted and buried a city called Pompeii. The people who lived there died, and their bodies were covered in ash.

Later, people made casts of the bodies, and these casts seemed to tell stories. For example, one cast looked like a mother holding her child.

But now, scientists have used DNA to learn more about these people. The DNA shows that some of the stories we believed about the Pompeii casts are not true.

For example, the 'mother' holding the child was actually a man, and the two people hugging were not sisters or a mother and daughter. One of them was also a man.

The DNA also tells us that the people of Pompeii came from many different places. This means that Pompeii was a diverse city with people from all over.