Discover ancient DNA studies uncovering human ancestry, migrations, and population history.
A new genetic study is rewriting the history of the collapse of the Classic Maya civilization, revealing that even though ...
A recent study published last year in the journal Cell has identified the ancient origins of a genetic mutation that ...
In a milestone study published in Nature on April 30, northern New Mexico's Picuris Pueblo has, for the first time, ...
A 220-year-old mystery surrounding the remains of infamous German outlaw Johannes Bückler, known as "Schinderhannes," has at last been solved. ...
New information on a mass burial found at the Bayanbulag site in Mongolia, which is thought to hold the remains ...
The origins of the Huns, the formidable nomad warriors who changed European history in the late fourth century, have been ...
About 19,000 years ago, a prehistoric woman was buried inside El Mirón Cave, a huge rock shelter in Northern Spain. ...
A genetic study has, for the first time, unraveled a matrilocal social system in Iron Age Britain, where land and ...
A skull long thought to belong to Arsinoë IV, sister of Cleopatra, has been confirmed to be the remains of ...
A new study revealed key insights about Mediterranean language families' origins, including Italo-Celtic and Graeco-Armenian branches of Indo-European. An international ...
