The Romans famously claimed to be descended from the Trojans, but does this legend have any basis in actuality?

More information: Amos Frumkin, Catastrophic fires and soil degradation: possible association with the Neolithic revolution in the southern Levant, Journal of Soils and Sediments (2025). DOI: 10. ...

By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...

However, the genetic evidence presented by these mummies suggests that pastoralism, at least in the Green Sahara, may have spread not through migration but through the exchange of practices and ideas ...

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This study not only advances our understanding of the prehistoric populations in Neolithic China but also provides new insights into patterns of migration and cultural exchange during this critical ...

Centuries of antiquarians and archaeologists thought they were burial places for the elite of Neolithic Irish society. Genetic analysis of human remains within several of the tombs initially ...

The Neolithic Flint Mines project was established in order to fully record and widely disseminate the results of the early 20th century investigations for the first time. Harrow Hill: a Neolithic ...

This discovery challenges existing theories about human migration and genetic exchange between Sub-Saharan and North African populations during the Neolithic era. The Takarkori mummies are closely ...

Archaeologists have long puzzled over these mysterious graves, wondering who was buried in them and what roles they played in Neolithic societies. Now, they may finally have some answers to these ...

Italian grape and wine domestication took 7,000 years. Seeds show a shift from wild to cultivated types. Sardinia played a key role early.