Kinship and ancestry of the Celts in Baden-Württemberg, Germany: genetic analyses of Celtic burial mounds from 500 BCE reveal close relationships
Thailand’s Iron Age Log Coffin culture: ancient DNA helps researchers elucidate the structure of a prehistoric community from Southeast Asia
Reanalysis of Iceman Ötzi’s genome reveals dark skin, male pattern baldness, and a high amount of Anatolian ancestry
Linguistics and genetics combine to suggest a new hybrid hypothesis for the origin of the Indo-European languages
Family trees from the European Neolithic: scientists gain insights into the social behaviour of a Neolithic community
Ludwig van Beethoven’s genome sheds light on chronic health problems and cause of death; the study has been published in Current Biology
Large-scale genomic analysis documents the migrations of Ice Age hunter-gatherers over a period of 30,000 years
Origins of the Black Death identified. Despite the pandemic’s immense demographic and societal impacts, its origins have long been elusive
A study published in the journal Science traces the evolution of the hepatitis B virus from prehistory to the present, revealing dissemination routes and changes in viral diversity
The Justinianic Plague began in 541 in the Eastern Roman Empire, ruled at the time by the Emperor Justinian I, and recurrent outbreaks ravaged Europe and the Mediterranean basin for approximately 200 years