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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...