Surgery was rare and risky in the medieval period. Though medical options were limited, trans people were able to take ...

A study of ancient DNA from Europeans between 1700 and 45,000 years ago suggests that 63 percent of them had dark skin.

Filmmaker Fred Kudjo Kuwornu brings his documentary We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe ...

Ancient DNA from 348 individuals suggests that pale skin became the predominant characteristic of people living in Europe ...

A married couple introduced an eastern Idaho community to an adrenaline-fueled sport with roots that date back hundreds of ...

Ancient Magdalenians practiced cannibalism, consuming enemies and possibly loved ones, revealing prehistoric violence.

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

Speeches delivered by J. D. Vance and Pete Hegseth were not just verbal lashings of America’s allies but a wholesale rejection of eighty years of U.S. foreign policy.

The US and Europe, once close allies and friends, are moving away from each other.

On a wet evening in Suhl, in the former East Germany, a smattering of youthful faces were among hundreds lining up to hear ...

D NA’s power to illuminate humanity’s past never ceases to amaze. Collected from those now alive, it shows how their ...

The little-known ancient Greek city of Europos has started to unveil its secrets in a new wave of excavations that started in ...