Vicki Moses is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Harvard's Science of the Human Past Initiative and Max Planck-Harvard Archaeosciences of the Ancient Mediterranean. (That means that she's interesting and insanely smart.) We'll discuss some fascinating new research on the DNA of people who died in Pompeii and how the results changed so much of what we thought we knew.
With DNA, Pompeii Narratives Take a Twist - The New York Times
Ancient DNA challenges prevailing interpretations of the Pompeii plaster casts: Current Biology
New DNA evidence rewrites long-told stories of people in ancient Pompeii | AP News