Two molecular studies link the nearly complete Harbin skull, at least 146,000 years old, to the elusive Denisovan lineage.

One of the unresolved mysteries about the history of the Americas is when the first people arrived. Despite extensive debate ...

Some 23,000 years ago, the first people walked along the muddy edge of a lake in what is now New Mexico. Their feet sank into ...

A research review favors migration between 20,000 and 14,000 years ago for ancestors of most living Indigenous Americans.

The Huns were a nomadic people whose sudden and ferocious arrival in the late 4th century sent shockwaves through the ancient world. Known for their lightning-fast cavalry and relentless raids, they ...

The study of ancient DNA provides valuable insights into human history, including how ancient populations migrated and merged with each other. But discoveries drawn from this ancient genetic data can ...

A handful of unremarkable bone fragments from caves in southern Siberia have turned out to hold an extraordinary evolutionary ...

Sheeppox affected European sheep herds for centuries in the medieval period – but they weren’t the oldest viral genomes we discovered. These came from two sheep teeth from the Eurasian steppe, roughly ...

TEL AVIV, Israel & LEHI, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MyHeritage, the leading global platform for family history and DNA testing, announced today the release of Ancient Origins, a major new product that ...

Researchers have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever, pinpointing when it evolved to spread through lice rather than ticks, and how it gained ...