A major study shows how people in Bronze Age Europe adapted to change through shifting ancestry, burial rites and daily life practices.

Peter Adams, 20, was identified nearly five decades after he was struck and killed on I-95 in Virginia. Adams, an Illinois ...

In the wake of the U.S. bombing of Iran and its dismissal of European allies, an anxious continent’s best chance at security runs through its largest economy.

The Late Bronze Age “Urnfield” world is famous for cremation - yet that very practice usually destroys the biological clues archaeologists need. Now, an international team has used rare inhumation ...

Volunteer investigative genetic genealogist Wendy Watson explains why police can’t upload crime scene DNA to Ancestry or ...

Ancient DNA studies show that between 6500 and 4000 BCE, descendants of western Anatolian farmers mix with local hunter-gatherers across Europe, leading to 70–100% ancestry turnover in most regions - ...

A study of ancient human DNA from a wetland region in Belgium, western Germany, and the Netherlands yielded surprising ...

University of Oxford expert uncovers role of paper restorers and bookbinders in deciphering church and civil records to compile 'hitlist' of Jews The post Nazis restored old manuscripts to hunt down ...

Doron Langberg used to think their Israeli heritage was incidental to their art. Then the Gaza war brought questions of ...

A new interdisciplinary study published in Nature Communications provides the first detailed insights, from a biomolecular and archaeological perspective, into the lives of people living in Central ...

A new interdisciplinary study provides the first detailed insights, from a biomolecular and archaeological perspective, into the lives of people living in Central Europe during the Late Bronze Age (ca ...

A trip in honour of my Jewish great-grandmother was a reminder that we don’t all learn the same lessons from history ...