A woman from a group of hunter-gatherers died about 19,000 years ago and was buried in a cave in northern Spain. Archaeologists began exploring the cave in 1996, uncovering evidence of prehistoric ...

The Neolithic period began in southwest Asia around 12,000 years ago. It marked a major shift in human history as societies ...

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 ...

They found that when birds evolve ... Ancient Egyptian Mummified Bodies Smell 'Woody,' 'Spicy' and 'Sweet' Feb. 14, 2025 — Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell 'woody,' 'spicy' and 'sweet ...

In a new study published today in Science, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew), together with global ...

MyHeritage, the leading global platform for family history and DNA testing, announced today the release of Ancient Origins, a major new product that complements the company’s DNA ethnicity reports.

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

Cameron said some DNA evidence had even taken over 10 years just to be captured in the system. “This failure to manage forensic services is unacceptable, and the South African Police Service ...

The South African Police Service (SAPS) has again faced a large backlog of DNA samples, which threatened the criminal justice system. The backlog has once again spiralled out of control and now ...

to the South China Morning Post’s Holly Chik. The study also demonstrates that ancient DNA found in sediment—which scientists call “sedaDNA”—is a useful tool for exploring ancient ...