JAMESTOWN — A new paper studying equine remains excavated at James Fort reveals what may be the first donkey brought to the eastern seaboard of North America, as well as new insights into the role of ...

Our past is a rich tapestry filled with incredible discoveries and triumphs, but it also holds persistent knots of mystery ...

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

Norse people may have lived in Iceland almost 70 years earlier than historians thought, and their arrival might not have been the environmental disaster it is often portrayed as. Firm evidence for ...

Ancient DNA from Iceland’s first centuries of habitation is forcing historians and geneticists to redraw the map of who ...

At Harvard Panel, Scholars Say Ancient DNA May ‘Challenge Assumptions’ of Ethnic Homogeneity in Medieval England Thursday's talk took place at the Center for Government and International Studies South ...

A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the domestic cat, which has the scientific name Felis catus, originated in North ...

More than 100 descendants of many historic families of Charles, Calvert, Anne Arundel and St. Mary’s counties gathered in ...

The Bank of England's November rate decision is approaching, and many have predicted that it will decide to hold the rate at 4 per cent, ending a pattern of quarterly cuts. Nigel Green, the chief ...

Named for Moses Cleaveland, the small settlement grew quickly. By the time of the Civil War, Cleveland had become a growing industrial force. And when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in ...

Scientists identified traces of the drug in the brain tissue of two individuals buried in the crypt of a hospital in Milan New DNA analysis adds to growing research indicating the famous Pacific ...