In the process any notion of European genetic purity has been swept away on a tide of powdered bone. Analysis of ancient genomes provides the equivalent of the personal DNA testing kits available ...

Most prehistoric Europeans had dark skin, hair and eyes well into the Iron Age, about 3,000 years ago, new research finds. Scientists found that the genes that cause lighter skin, hair and eyes ...

Here's an artist's impression of what that man might have looked like: The new genetic analysis was performed on DNA extracted from ... that the light skin of Europeans evolved much more recently ...