A 2,800-year-old mass grave in Serbia reveals a chilling pattern: women and children deliberately targeted, most unrelated to one another, and buried in a ritualized ceremony.

The ancient humans of northern East Asia refer to the populations that "lived north of the Qinling-Huaihe line," Zhang Ganyu, a key member of the paleontology project, told the Global Times. Their ...

Humans were moving between Siberia and northern China far earlier than thought, according to a new study that offers a ...

A mysterious form of plague that spread across Eurasia thousands of years before the Black Death has finally revealed a crucial clue. Scientists analyzing ancient DNA discovered the bacterium Yersinia ...

Ancient DNA from Ajvide graves shows Stone Age burials often grouped extended relatives, highlighting the importance of wider ...

A wave of ancient DNA studies published in Nature has forced a sharp revision of how scientists understand the peopling of ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Now, ancient DNA from the Neanderthal bone fragment known as Star 1 is revealing how they migrated. Late Neanderthal and early modern human remains ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...

When ancient humans mated, dad was a Neanderthal, mom was Homo sapiens.

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...