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

According to Ancient Minoan marriage rules, first cousin marriages were nothing unusual in the particular society.

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 ...

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 ...

Though some might be surprised to see Neanderthal DNA in their ancestry test results, people of non-African descent derive 1 to 4 percent of their genomes from this extinct human cousin. This ...

"creating a tapestry of diverse ancestry from which speakers of the Greek, Paleo-Balkan and Albanian languages arose." "When we look at the rise of Mycenaean civilization, the ancient DNA supports ...

They applied the new method to more than 1,500 European genomes (a person's complete set of DNA) from people who lived primarily during the first millennium AD (year 1 to 1000), encompassing the ...