Modern-day populations in India descend from a mixture of peoples living thousands of years ago in South ... Asia, including the Bronze-Age Indus Valley Civilization, two studies reveal. In the ...

Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry ...

New DNA research shows ... who specializes in the study of ancient populations, is making it possible to give a precise answer. The peoples of Europe and West Asia, as well as everyone descended ...

The extraction of genetic material from archaeological remains, known as ancient DNA, is helping scientists gain insights into our distant past. With advances in sequencing technology, these ...

The Neolithic period began in southwest Asia ... to trace ancient population movements. Our new study has just been published in Nature. We analysed the ancient genomes (complete DNA sequences ...

Creation of a comprehensive genetic representation for more than 2.5 billion people across the Middle East and South Asia ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...