Most prehistoric Europeans had dark skin ... Ghirotto and her colleagues analyzed 348 samples of ancient DNA from archaeological sites in 34 countries in Western Europe and Asia, according ...

If you've ever pictured the builders of Stonehenge or the legendary warriors immortalized in "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey," ...

A new DNA study reveals that dark skin was common among early Europeans for much longer than previously believed. Pale skin became prevalent only around 3,000 years ago. The research suggests that ...

For much of the tens of thousands of years covered by the sampled DNA in the new study led by Guido Barbujani at the University of Ferrara in Italy, 63% of ancient Europeans had dark skin ...

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Darker skin tones may have been the norm in Europe for many centuries longer than previously thought, analysis of human remains suggests ...

Unlike that flea-borne Black Death, this early variant had ... held that the proto-Indo-Europeans were an ancient race of north Germans—the people who made Corded Ware pots and axes.

The first genomic study of ancient people from the eastern Maghreb region — present-day Tunisia and northeastern Algeria — shows that Stone Age populations who lived there more than 8,000 ...

They come with people. Genomes and technology migrate together.” In addition to the insights they garnered regarding the genetic makeup of ancient Europeans, the study’s authors also contributed to ...

As Russia delves the depths of the Black Sea in search of the crashed US drone, we take a look at what else might be lurking beneath the waves. From ancient shipwrecks to huge underwater rivers ...