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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has recovered ancient DNA from 214 known human pathogens in prehistoric humans from ...