Louis XIV's real cause of death has been revealed after a team of researchers studied DNA from his mummified heart. The King ...

Thousands of years ago, the Sahara Desert was a lush and fertile landscape, home to thriving communities. A new study ...

Domestic cats first joined European communities around 2,000 years ago, during the age of Roman power, not in deep prehistory ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

Based on genetic material preserved in birch bark tar from Estonia, researchers found that the teen likely had brown hair and ...

Sediment DNA also traces life outside the cave. Predators dragged prey into sheltered chambers, humans left waste behind. By ...

Colon cancer is hitting long before the usual screening age. If you could ID who's at risk, you could screen early and save ...

The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible ...

Daigle’s research showed that 87% of his 331 students had French ancestry, 81% had Indigenous ancestry and 70% specifically ...

A simple MyHeritage DNA kit sent TalkTV host Peter Cardwell on an emotional path of discovery, unearthing centuries of ...

Reopening with work by Tom Lloyd and others, the museum is a manifestation of possibility, specifically in Black lives.

A recent forensic discovery suggests that the infamous killer could have been Aaron Kosminski, but the evidence still raises ...