Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Amazons fight Greeks on a terra-cotta lekythos (oil flask) from the fifth century B.C. Amazon battle scenes, known as Amazonomachy, were popular in ancient Greek art. Metropolitan Museum, New York ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

DNA from a Roman salting site in Spain reveals sardines were the key fish used in garum, the famous sauce rooted in Greek and ...

DNA from a Roman salting site in Spain reveals sardines were the key fish used in garum, the famous sauce rooted in Greek and ...

Secrets of ancient societies revealed through DNA from 4,000-year-old teeth - Ancient DNA has revealed links between the ...

A DNA bone test on a man who lived 4,500 years ago in the Nile Valley has shed new light on the rise of the Ancient Egyptian ...

Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a ...

An international research team has published a new study on one of the oldest known sites for the processing of animal meat by humans in the southern Balkans. At Marathousa 1, an archaeological site ...

A large wildfire has broken out south of Athens, forcing evacuations and road closures near the ancient Temple of Poseidon.

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.This adaptability is a skill that long predates the modern age. According to a ...