The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

Recent archaeological and scientific studies are challenging long-held views on human evolution, ancient technology, and cultural heritage. From a pre-Viking Norwegian ship burial to 800,000-year-old ...

A tiny copper-alloy tool long overlooked in a museum collection is reshaping what archaeologists know about the origins of human engineering. Researchers said the artefact shows ancient Egyptians were ...

Learn more about new research that analyzed 16,000 ancient genomes and discovered that natural selection hasn’t slowed down.

Scientists have, for the first time, rebuilt ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) using DNA from archaeological human remains that are more than 2,000 years old. The research, ...