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

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

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

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

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

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 ...