A group of scientists has sequenced the genome of a man who was buried in Egypt around 4,500 years ago. The study offers rare insight into the genetic ancestry of early Egyptians and reveals links to ...

An Alaskan baby buried 11,500 years ago has clued scientists in to a forgotten branch of the Native American family tree. This child’s DNA is more genetically ancient than the ancestors of ...

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 ...

Analysis of ancient DNA from one of the best-preserved Neolithic tombs in Britain has revealed that most of the people buried there were from five continuous generations of a single extended ...

Researchers in the UK have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from an individual who lived more than 4,000 years ago.

An international team led by researchers at the Center for Paleogenetics, has uncovered microbial DNA preserved in woolly and ...

Scientists have confirmed that Yersinia pestis, the bacterium behind later plagues like the Black Death, caused the Justinian ...

Ancient viral DNA long thought extinct is active during early embryo growth, steering gene expression and shaping development across mammals. (CREDIT: Adobe Stock) ...

It turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses that embedded themselves into our genetic code.

Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural ...