Learn more about the people who once used Grotta della Monaca as a sacred burial site.

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

High on the sheer limestone cliffs in southwest China, ancient wooden coffins remain wedged into rock faces hundreds of feet ...

According to Ancient Minoan marriage rules, first cousin marriages were nothing unusual in the particular society.

An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Harvard Research Center for the Ancient ...

A DNA study of a Bronze Age cave in Calabria sheds light on early populations that lived in southern Italy centuries before Greek settlement.

A groundbreaking genetic study has revealed that Italians who reach 100 carry significantly more ancient Western hunter-gatherer DNA than their younger counterparts. The research, published in ...

Researchers analyzed 333 Italian centenarians and compared their genetic composition to 103 ancient genomes to investigate ...

An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton actually had fairer skin and was from southern England, researchers using new ...

The Sverris Saga, written in the 12th century, describes King Sverre’s rise to power and his conflict with the Baglers. The ...

Researchers reconstructed the genetic and social structure of a Protoapennine community from Bronze Age Italy using ancient ...

The curious skeleton of a Roman-era individual in Britain, nicknamed the Beachy Head Woman, is not who we thought she was.