Researchers lay out first genetic history of Rome
(PHYSorg.com Archaeology & Fossils)

Scholars have been studying Rome for hundreds of years, but it still holds some secrets-for instance, relatively little is known about the ancestral origins of the city`s denizens. Now, an international team led by researchers from Stanford University, the University of Vienna and Sapienza University of Rome is filling in the gaps with a genetic history that shows just how much the Eternal City`s populace mirrored its sometimes tumultuous history.