The Max Planck Society of Evolutionary Anthropology announced the analysis of genome-wide DNA from skeletal samples of 722 ...

A scientific study with important implications for archaeology in Britain and France was published last week. Using ancient ...

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

Researchers say they have identified a new species of ancient hominin, Homo juluensis, that could help solve another big ...

Scientists analyzing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern U.K. during the Iron Age was ...

Comparison of that ancient DNA with modern human DNA showed that the two species had interbred and that people today still ...

Advancements in genetic research have shed new light on the complex migrations and interactions that shaped Europe's history ...

A groundbreaking study reveals evidence that, in Iron Age Britain, land inheritance followed the female line, with husbands ...

Bacterial DNA isolated from a 120-year-old preserved plant cutting helped reconstruct the history of Pierce’s disease in ...

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 ...

An analysis of dozens of British Iron Age skeletons has revealed that Celtic society was organized around women.