Genetic analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton from southern France has reshaped the story of how Europe’s last Neanderthals lived and died. The individual, nicknamed “Thorin,” belonged to a previously ...

Both in schoolbooks and popular imagination, 476 AD stands like a sword stroke: the year Romulus Augustulus, the teenage ...

Maternal DNA from Neanderthal teeth found in Stajnia Cave show Neanderthals moved across wide areas of Europe.

Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analyzing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research led by the Francis Crick ...

A new analysis of 258 ancient genomes from southern Germany reveals that the fall of the Western Roman Empire triggered gradual genetic mixing, not mass barbarian invasions. Researchers found ...

Western European hunter-gatherer DNA (WHG) has a link to Italians who live to be at least a hundred. While Italians have more ancient DNA than just WHG, it is the only component of their DNA that has ...

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 ...