A new study finds that Indigenous Andeans living in what is now Peru have extra copies of a gene called AMY1, which helps the ...
Most museums feel like you’re looking at history through a window, but the Museum of the Cherokee People in Cherokee, North ...
Zeus, the king of the Olympian Gods, transformed into a white bull to abduct Europa, the princess who gave her name to the ...
Researchers who analyzed genomes from early medieval graves in modern-day Germany hypothesize that people from the former ...
Samnite soldiers depicted on a frieze. National Archaeological Museum of Naples. Public Domain The Samnites were Italic tribes that migrated from Central Europe to the mountainous area of ...
Homo sapiens’ interconnected networks gave them a survival edge over more isolated Neanderthals amid environmental changes.
Both in schoolbooks and popular imagination, 476 AD stands like a sword stroke: the year Romulus Augustulus, the teenage ...
While Homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived near each other and likely interacted, they usually preferred living in slightly ...
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 ...
Genome evidence points to a slow blending of peoples — not a violent tide of invaders — that laid the foundations of modern ...
Studying ancient history means encountering some unsettling traditions. For me, that included learning about “sunjang,” a funeral practice in which servants were buried alive with their masters. With ...
Millennia-old pottery remains from across Europe reveal that ancient communities in the region made elaborate meals using a much greater variety of plant and animal products than previously believed, ...