Ancient DNA is spilling more secrets about the Avars, a fearsome people who built a mysterious empire that ruled much of Central and Eastern Europe for 250 years from the mid-sixth century. Primarily ...

This image shows the skull of the East African individual plus the oil lamp with the legionary eagle that he was buried with. Despite the Roman Empire’s extensive military and cultural influence on ...

Timeline of new and published genomes. (A) 204 newly reported genomes (black circles) are shown alongside published genomes (gray circles), ordered by time and region (colored the same way as in B).

New DNA analysis reveals how the rise and fall of the Roman Empire ultimately shifted the population in the Balkans.

Your blood might help researchers better understand how colonization may have changed Alaska Natives’ DNA. A new study taking samples in Juneau this week and later this summer in Hoonah will analyze ...

For the first time, researchers have discovered genomic evidence of malaria in 2,000-year-old human remains from the Roman Empire, according to a new study. With DNA fragments from the teeth of 58 ...

Ancient DNA from the rise and fall of the Roman Empire reveals Italian ancestry had little detectable influence on Balkan Peninsula populations, despite the Empire’s cultural supremacy in the region.

Again choppers land on an embassy roof to evacuate people in the face of an unexpectedly rapid enemy advance. The Kabul 2021 collapse, so reminiscent of Saigon 1975, has spurred speculation about the ...

Detection of Gene Abnormalities May Help Patients and Physicians Determine the Best Approach to Treatment, Improve Survival Rate and Lower Treatment Costs Recent data point to certain genetic ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Investigators are broadening their DNA searches beyond government databases and demanding genetic information from companies that do ancestry research for their customers. Two major ...