Both in schoolbooks and popular imagination, 476 AD stands like a sword stroke: the year Romulus Augustulus, the teenage ...

From the Black Death to the COVID-19 pandemic, combining the genetic data of a pathogen with historical records, ...

Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years ...

The tooth of an ancient mummy from a civilisation that preceded the Inca Empire has opened up a new way of thinking ...

A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first ...

A woman's skull, approximately 1,400 years old, discovered during the excavation of her grave in what is now Ergoldsbach. Using a tiny bone fragment from the skull, palaeogeneticists at JGU ...

A genomic analysis of people buried on the border of the ancient Roman Empire show how distinct groups combined after the ...

Researchers who analyzed genomes from early medieval graves in modern-day Germany hypothesize that people from the former ...

Milan’s central train station is one of the most spectacular in Europe. But below the passenger platforms lies an area which ...

Ancient DNA reveals women brought farming knowledge to hunter-gatherer communities in Belgium and Netherlands gradually.

It’s 6 a.m. as the rising sun illuminates apricot-colored cliffs in central Armenia. It’s so still that even the distant buzz ...