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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Researchers determined that a skull of a female child from Skhūl Cave in Israel shows both Homo sapiens and Neanderthal ...

A large-scale study tracing human disease history back 37,000 years has identified harmful bacteria, viruses and parasites ...

Researchers have mapped the spread of infectious diseases in humans across millennia, to reveal how human-animal interactions permanently transformed ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has ...

A new study reveals that Stone Age humans in Germany operated a 'fat factory' to extract nutrients from animal bones.