DNA Archive

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Long obscured in the shadows of history, the world's first nomadic empire—the Xiongnu—is, at last, coming into view thanks to painstaking archaeological excavations

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Denisovans and the Neanderthals are long gone, but their DNA can be found in certain modern humans. According to researchers, some present-day

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When the human remains found on board the Swedish warship Vasa were investigated, it was initially determined that the skeleton designated "G" was

Conny Waters -  Ancientpages.com - Traces of ancient empires that stretched across Africa remain in the DNA of people living on the continent, reveals a new genetics study

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ludwig van Beethoven's genome has been sequenced for the first time by an international team of scientists using five genetically matching locks of

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Tibetan Plateau, the highest and largest plateau above sea level, is one of the harshest environments settled by humans. It has a

Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com- The first signs of life emerged on Earth in the form of microbes about four billion years ago. While scientists are still determining

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Humans and chimpanzees differ in only one percent of their DNA. Human accelerated regions (HARs) are parts of the genome with an unexpected

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - More than 7,000 languages are spoken in the world. This linguistic diversity is passed on from one generation to the next, similarly to

Jan Bartek  - AncientPages.com - Based on previous archaeological studies, researchers know that the Old Kingdom of Egypt and the Akkadian Empire, both Bronze Age civilizations, experienced sudden

AncientPages.com - Every person alive on the planet today is descended from people who lived as hunter-gatherers in Africa. The continent is the cradle of human origins and ingenuity,

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - DNA is an essential component in the cells of all living organisms on this planet. It contains information that is critical for building

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new comprehensive study of ancient human remains taken from a cemetery at a site called the Links of Noltland has revealed surprises

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers from the University of Oxford's Big Data Institute have taken a major step towards mapping the entirety of genetic relationships among humans:

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Denisova Cave in southern Siberia is the type locality of the Denisovans, an archaic hominin group who were related to Neanderthals. The dozen

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Despite marked differences in burial customs, architecture, and art, the Minoan civilization in Crete, the Helladic civilization in mainland Greece and the Cycladic

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - To obtain the complete genetic information from Neanderthals, including the chromosomal DNA stored in the cell nucleus, it was long needed to find

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Scythians were a multitude of horse-warrior nomad cultures dwelling in the Eurasian steppe during the first millennium BCE. Because of the lack

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers analyzed genome-wide data for 214 ancient individuals spanning 6,000 years to explore the genetic, sociopolitical, and cultural changes surrounding the formation of

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study shows Neanderthals and modern humans are more related than previously thought. Studies of the Y chromosomes of Neanderthals and Denisovans

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Now, a new analysis of ancient genomes by a team of researchers - Melissa Hubisz and Amy Williams of Cornell University and Adam