For the first time, researchers have uncovered direct genomic evidence of the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian—the ...

Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural ...

New research sheds light on Denisovans: chronology of Denisova Cave, sedimentary DNA, and genetic legacy in Asia and Oceania.

But a novel technique is allowing us to peer back further than DNA's expiration date in Africa, to answer long-standing ...

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery has rewritten our understanding of early medieval England, revealing that two individuals buried in seventh-century cemeteries had recent West African ancesto ...

Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

Researchers have studied the DNA preserved in the skeletal remains of Pompeii volcanic eruption victims.

In the winter of 1812, Napoleon’s once-mighty army left Russia battered, frostbitten, and starving. The infamous retreat ...