Philistines were very likely of Greek origin, as a new DNA study traces the origins of the ancient villains in the Eastern ...

The palace at Knossos on Crete was an important centre for the Minoan civilization DNA is shedding light on the people who built Greece's earliest civilizations. Researchers analysed genetic data ...

Over half of our genomes consists of thousands of remnants of ancient viral DNA, known as transposable elements, which are widespread across the tree of life. Once dismissed as the 'dark side' of the ...

Researchers Track Down When Neanderthals and Early Modern Humans Interbred Using Ancient Genomes Two studies came to a similar conclusion, highlighting a single, sustained event of mixing DNA. The ...

Tiyanna Marie Mastrosavas has the DNA of two of the most ancient civilizations. Indigenous Australians and Greeks. Born in South Australia to a Greek father and an Aboriginal mother, she learned ...

Researchers reveal genetic insights disproving claims that medieval Greek population in the Peloponnese went extinct.

Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analyzing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research led by the Francis Crick ...

Using new scientific tools, University of Cincinnati archaeologists discovered that an ancient Greek leader known today as the Griffin Warrior likely grew up around the seaside city he would one ...

Police are investigating reports that a man claiming to be Ben Needham, who disappeared on the Greek island of Kos in 1991, has come forward to authorities in Denmark. The news comes 33 years to ...