With the help of the analysis of ancient genomes, it has been possible for the first time to gain insights into kinship and marriage rules in Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece
Does the history of our languages match the history of our genes? A research shows a large number of matches, but also widespread mismatches
Archaeogenetic study reveals large-scale continental migration into the East of England during the early Medieval Period
Origins of the Black Death identified. Despite the pandemic’s immense demographic and societal impacts, its origins have long been elusive
Multidisciplinary research team sheds light on the 1,400-year-old mystery about the genetic origins of the Avar elite
Genomic study of the Tarim Basin mummies in western China reveals an indigenous Bronze Age population that was genetically isolated but culturally cosmopolitan
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
Early Neandertals in Western Europe were more closely related to the last Neandertals who lived in the same region as much as 80,000 years later, than they were to contemporaneous Neandertals living in Siberia
A new archaeological site in Ethiopia shows that the origins of stone tool production are older than 2.58 million years ago
A new study found that Denisovans occupied the Tibetan Plateau in the Middle Pleistocene and were adapted to this low-oxygen environment