DNA Archive

Conny Waters -  AncientPages.com -  In the 370s, the Huns made a sudden appearance in Europe, establishing a significant yet brief empire. Scholars have long debated their origins,

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Light eyes, hair, and skin are believed to have evolved multiple times as Homo sapiens moved out of Africa. In areas with lower UV

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Approximately 19,000 years ago, a woman from a hunter-gatherer community passed away and was interred in a cave located in northern Spain. In

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Research conducted by the Francis Crick Institute has unveiled patterns of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD. Image credit: GrumpyBeere

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - After modern humans migrated from Africa, they encountered and interbred with Neanderthals, leading to the presence of approximately 2–3% Neanderthal DNA in the genomes

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Armenians, historically residing in the Armenian highlands of Western Asia, were traditionally thought to be descendants of Phrygian settlers from the Balkans. This

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A recent study provides new insights into the origins of the first Viking settlers in Iceland and the Faroe Islands. Geneticists have examined

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A recent DNA study has yielded significant insights into life in ancient Pompeii. Researchers have analyzed ancient DNA collected from the well-known body

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Rapa Nui, also known as Te Pito o Te Henua (the navel of the world) or Easter Island, is one of the most

AncientPages.com - High-resolution analysis of the genomes of individuals buried in a 4,500-year-old collective tomb at Bréviandes-les-Pointes, near the French town of Troyes, has revealed a surprising story

AncientPages.com - In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long after we made the data publicly

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Sometimes, we encounter people who live in places where they don’t seem to belong. In many parts of the world, small groups of

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - According to recent scientific findings, new DNA sequencing technologies have successfully identified the historical remains of George Washington's grandnephews - Samuel Walter Washington and

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ruled by many Emperors, the mighty and vast Roman Empire covered territories that included Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia. Established in 27

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - One of the most intriguing archaeological pre-Columbian sites is Teotihuacán, which scientists still know relatively little about. Who were the people who built

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new computational tool detects up to second to third-degree cousins using ancient genomes. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered a new repeat gene cluster sequence that is exclusively expressed in humans and non-human primates. The discovery, detailed in a

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A research team led by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) and Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) has identified the most widespread genetic contribution

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - People who carry three gene variants inherited from Neanderthals are more sensitive to some types of pain, according to a new study co-led

AncientPages.com - When researchers used DNA from the 10,000-year-old “Cheddar Man”, one of Britain’s oldest skeletons, they unveiled what the first inhabitants of what now is Britain actually

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The diversity of family systems in prehistoric societies has always fascinated scientists. A groundbreaking study by Mainz anthropologists and an international team of