DNA Archive

AncientPages.com - In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long after we made the data publicly

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new interesting DNA study reveals that the Blackfoot people trace their ancestry to a previously unknown genetic lineage that dates back approximately

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - According to recent scientific findings, new DNA sequencing technologies have successfully identified the historical remains of George Washington's grandnephews - Samuel Walter Washington and

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ruled by many Emperors, the mighty and vast Roman Empire covered territories that included Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia. Established in 27

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new DNA study reveals contact with the Yamnaya people dramatically re-wrote Northern Europeans' genetic story. The Yamnaya (c. 3300 – 2600 BC -

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new computational tool detects up to second to third-degree cousins using ancient genomes. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study suggests that the difference in height between female and male individuals in northern Europe during the Early Neolithic (8,000–6,000 years

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The 9,000-year-old shaman burial in Bad Dürrenberg, Germany, is one of Central Europe's most spectacular discoveries. Discovered in 1934 during construction works, the

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers have found that previous studies analyzing the genomes of people with European ancestry may have reported inaccurate results by not fully accounting

AncientPages.com - For generations, Neanderthals have been a source of fascination for scientists. This species of ancient hominim inhabited the world for around 500,000 years until they suddenly

Conny Waters -  AncientPages.com - By analyzing genomes up to 40,000 years old, scientists have traced the history of migrations between Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals. About 40,000 years

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - People who carry three gene variants inherited from Neanderthals are more sensitive to some types of pain, according to a new study co-led

AncientPages.com - When researchers used DNA from the 10,000-year-old “Cheddar Man”, one of Britain’s oldest skeletons, they unveiled what the first inhabitants of what now is Britain actually

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The diversity of family systems in prehistoric societies has always fascinated scientists. A groundbreaking study by Mainz anthropologists and an international team of

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Cattle may seem like uniquely American animals, steeped in the lore of cowboys, cattle drives, and sprawling ranches. However, scientists have found evidence

AncientPages.com - Geneticists have now firmly established that roughly two percent of the DNA of all living non-African people comes from our Neanderthal cousins. It’s difficult to imagine

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Who lived at Machu Picchu at its height? A new study used ancient DNA to find out for the first time where workers buried

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Recent archaeogenetic studies have shown that human migrations and individual mobility played a bigger role in prehistory than previously anticipated. With the movement

AncientPages.com - The people known as the Picts have puzzled archaeologists and historians for centuries. They lived in Scotland during the early medieval period, from around AD 300 to

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Recent scientific discoveries have shown that Neanderthal genes comprise some 1 to 4% of the genome of present-day humans whose ancestors migrated out

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have identified three 4,000-year-old British cases of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria causing the plague—the oldest evidence of