A groundbreaking new documentary series titled Human is set to bring the ancient past of our evolutionary relatives to life ...

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has ...

Scientists have uncovered DNA from 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric humans, including the oldest known evidence of plague ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...

Ancient zoonotic diseases spiked 6,500 years ago due to farming and migration—reshaping human health and aiding future ...

Leprosy’s tale stretches from 5,000-year-old skeletons in Eurasia to a startling 4,000-year-old case in Chile, revealing that ...

Ancient DNA from prehistoric bones reveals a 37,000-year timeline of human infections, tracing our long struggle with disease.

When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.

A joint team of archaeologists, chronologists, geologists, and paleontologists have successfully dated a hoard of wooden ...

New landmark research has successfully mapped 37,000 years of infectious disease across ancient human populations.

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has ...

Hansen’s disease, also known as leprosy, was long believed to be absent from the Americas prior to European contact. A new study led by Kirsten Bos at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary ...