On a Swedish island, a rare cemetery from the Stone Age reveals the family relationships of the last hunter-gatherers in Europe. Some people were buried with distant relatives instead of close ones, ...

A novel DNA analysis of skeletons excavated from a Neolithic hunter-gatherer cemetery in Sweden has revealed surprising family relationships.

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An Ice Age double burial in Italy has yielded a stunning genetic revelation. DNA from a mother and daughter who lived over 12,000 years ago shows that the younger had a rare inherited growth disorder, ...

It's long been assumed the Jomon people, who had inhabited the Japanese archipelago since around 16,000 years ago, had multiple lineages resulting from different migration routes. But new genetic ...

More than 120,000 Japanese Americans were held in two Arizona camps in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

A newly discovered Viking grave with severed skulls and rope-bound corpses has unleashed a bizarre mystery that has stunned historians. A giant with a hole in his head. Six severed skulls. Rope-bound ...

Here's what we know about a South Florida DNA lab chosen over Quantico to analyze evidence in the Nancy Guthrie abduction.

A new ancient-DNA study suggests the Bronze Age people who transformed Britain around 2400 BC didn’t arrive from Iberia, as older narratives of the “Bell Beaker” story sometimes implied. Instead, ...

The mass grave was uncovered during a University of Cambridge training excavation at Wandlebury, an Iron Age hillfort just south of the city. The burial pit itself measured roughly four meters by one ...

Christoffer Boe discusses the box office success, global appeal and franchise potential of the movie, featured at Rotterdam, ...