In the dry, windswept valleys of Northern Chile, two ancient skeletons are changing how scientists understand the history of ...

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

Uralic languages, which includes Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian, are distinctly different from Indo-European languages that ...

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

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

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

A new study maps infectious diseases across millennia and offers new insight into how human-animal interactions permanently transformed our health landscape.

Ancient DNA evidence shows that the advent of agriculture led to more infectious disease among humans, with pathogens from ...

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

Hansen’s disease, also known as leprosy, was long believed to be absent from the Americas prior to European contact. A new ...

New study traces Indian ancestry to Neolithic Iranian farmers, Eurasian Steppe pastoralists, and South Asian hunter-gatherers.