Ancient DNA is turning Europe’s deep past from a sketch into a family album. Instead of guessing who first called the ...

Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analyzed the dynamics ...

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The international study, published in Science, analyzed 87 complete genomes from both ancient and modern felines to map how cats spread geographically over millennia. The earliest domestic cat DNA in ...

People living along southeastern Europe’s Danube River around 11,500 years ago never planted a crop but still laid the foundation for the rise of farming in that region some 3,000 years later, a new ...

Seeing a city on foot changes the way it reveals itself. Streets become stories, distances feel intentional, and small ...

A dog-like animal found in Italy has been revealed to be the earliest wolf ever discovered in Europe. The findings were published in the journal Scientific Reports last month. The discovery highlights ...

The fascination with Greek culture can be traced to the early modern period, from the Renaissance until the eighteenth century. During this era, European scholars – and later educated elites and a ...

Around 5,000 years ago, at the dawn of the Bronze Age, a mass migration of peoples from the grasslands of the Eurasian steppe poured into Europe. Called the Yamnaya, these horse herders introduced ...

Researchers developed a more precise method of understanding ancestry from ancient DNA and used it to identify previously unknown waves of migration. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Ancient Cuneiform Script found in a Czech cave surprises researchers as they investigate whether it reflects lost cultural links.

Seaweed isn’t something that generally features today in European recipe books, even though it is widely eaten in Asia. But our team has discovered molecular evidence that shows this wasn’t always the ...