A 4,500-year-old burial in Middle Egypt has reshaped what scientists know about ancient Egyptian origins. Inside a sealed ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the Green Sahara.

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

Sediment DNA also traces life outside the cave. Predators dragged prey into sheltered chambers, humans left waste behind. By following changes in human, animal and microbial DNA over time, researchers ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

A plague that swept through Eurasia for 2,000 years – millennia before the Black Death of the Middle Ages – has only ever ...

Recent breakthroughs in the study of ancient DNA are providing unprecedented insights into the ecosystems and human history ...

When Matthias Meyer began studying the ancient DNA in the 400,000 year old fossils he found in the Sima de los Huesos, or Pit of Bones cave, deep beneath the Atapuerca mountains in Spain, he was ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were ...