Scientists recovered ancient human DNA from cave walls for the first time. Refined, the method could help link prehistoric ...

Plague repeatedly struck the same Neolithic farming families buried in Scandinavian megalithic tombs over roughly 120 years, ...

Genome-wide data extracted from human remains at Shimao, a walled city on China’s Loess Plateau dating to roughly 2000 BCE, ...

"There is of course a limit to DNA preservation in Africa, but what it is, is not clear." ...

(Esben_H/iStock/Getty Images Plus) The Grand Duke Francesco de Medici, a prominent politician in the Tuscany region of Italy ...

DNA from ancient humans has been found on a prehistoric cave painting and on cave walls, demonstrating the potential to one day identify individual artists and resolve the debate over Neanderthals' ar ...

An ancient fragment of bone discovered in the Crimean cave of Starosele is changing what we think about how and where Neanderthals migrated. The fragment, now known as Star 1, turned out to be ...

An international team of cave explorers has shown that cave walls and the prehistoric rock art that adorns them can preserve human DNA for thousands of years.

Discovery in Siberia suggests bacterium from raw marmots devastated hunter-gatherer tribes about 5,500 years ago ...

Researchers led by the University of Vienna and Liège University Hospital Center have identified genetic variants associated with a rare inherited growth disorder in two prehistoric individuals who ...

A medieval churchyard is a place of Christian ideals and community traditions. Shaded by stately oaks, the moss-covered ...