Egypt is also a treasure trove for archaeology, with remains that could answer major ... The most exciting result was uncovering this man's genetic ancestry. By comparing his DNA to ancient genomes ...

A DNA analysis conducted on soil samples found within a Turkish cave system has revealed evidence of an ancient charcoal ...

Rock-cut tombs in Nuwayrat, Egypt where a pottery vessel in which the remains of a man, radiocarbon dated to around 2855–2570 cal BCE, was discovered. (John ...

A piece of resin gum from 5,700 years ago reveals the DNA, diet, and microbes from the body of a prehistoric woman.

A facial reconstruction was made using a 3D scan of the Egyptian man's skull. - Caroline Wilkinson, Liverpool John Moores University In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire ...

Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...

A facial reconstruction using a 3D scan of the skull Caroline Wilkinson / Liverpool John Moores University. During the third millennium B.C.E., a man was buried in a sealed ceramic pot in the Egyptian ...

Genetic tests of ancient settlers' remains show that Europe is a melting pot of bloodlines from Africa, the Middle East, and today's Russia.

When the bones were first excavated from Skhul Cave in northern Israel in 1931, archaeologists recognized that the child belonged to neither Homo sapiens, who had arrived in the region from Africa, ...

Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural settlements, marking one of the greatest transformations in human history. This ...

The skeleton, known as TBH1, had a rib injury thought to be caused by a sharp projectile and eventually succumbed to ...

Scientists have deciphered the genome of the bacterium behind the world's first recorded pandemic that swept through the eastern Mediterranean about 1,500 years ago. At such a critical moment in US ...