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

Ancient hunter-gatherers from Europe may have voyaged across the Mediterranean to Northern Africa around 8,500 years ago, new research suggests. Ancient DNA collected from the remains of Stone Age ...

Scientists have unveiled a detailed snapshot of human migrations in Europe during the first millennium AD by employing a more precise method of analysing ancestry through ancient DNA. Documenting ...

In the 1800s, archaeologists began reconstructing the deep history of Europe from the bones of ancient hunter-gatherers and the iconic art they left behind, like cave paintings, fertility figurines ...

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

Around 5,000 years ago, at the dawn of the Bronze Age, a mass migration of peoples from the grasslands of the Eurasian steppe poured into Europe. Called the Yamnaya, these horse herders introduced ...

2,000-year-old bones add evidence against the idea Columbus brought syphilis to Europe. A European outbreak of the STI in the late 1400s was long blamed on the conquistadors. But DNA analysis doesn't ...

In 1495, a devastating infection began to sweep across Europe, causing pustules and sores to erupt on people’s bodies and faces. Accusatory finger-pointing about the scourge, syphilis, began almost ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Humans first made dogs their best friends in prehistoric Europe, where groups of hunter-gathers learnt to tame dangerous wolves into companions between 19,000 and 32,000 years ago, ...