For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

Ancient doctors were interested in what people who lived long lives were doing every day and how this might have helped. The ...

A mysterious form of plague that spread across Eurasia thousands of years before the Black Death has finally revealed a crucial clue. Scientists analyzing ancient DNA discovered the bacterium Yersinia ...

Because cremation dominates the Urnfield period, the Late Bronze Age has long been a “blind spot” for biomolecular research. The new study published in Nature tackled that gap by focusing on ...

Burned crusts on ancient pottery reveal that Stone Age people cooked fish together with berries, seeds, and other plants.

Ancient DNA shows an old Irish goat breed dates back to the Bronze Age, linking modern goats to animals raised in Ireland ...

(Reuters) -A new line of evidence is providing further corroboration of the antiquity of fossilized footprints discovered at White Sands National Park in New Mexico that rewrite the history of humans ...

For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a new study is rewriting that history. Utilizing ancient DNA and reliable ...

Danish team finds 5,500-year-old ceremonial site hidden in Jordan’s hills In the hills of central Jordan, Danish archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery: a 5,500-year-old ritual site, used not ...