The discovery of Scandinavian ancestry in Britain, predating both the Anglo-Saxon and Viking periods, underscores the complexity of ancient migration dynamics. Twigstats has also revealed ...

The skeletal remains could help scientists unearth some of the mysteries around Viking DNA, and provide new answers ... unlocking the puzzles behind these ancient remains. From our morning news ...

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield.

From the remains of five Viking ships in Denmark to the excavation of an ancient rubbish dump in Westray ... Alan did manage to extract identifiable DNA from the sample. But when he compared ...

“The idea is that we can now investigate history with ancient DNA,” he told The Guardian. The study’s findings also reframe our understanding of the Viking Age. It was not simply a period of ...

The first genomic study of ancient people from the eastern Maghreb ... Reich’s team sequenced DNA from the bones or teeth of 9 individuals from eastern Maghreb archaeological sites, who lived ...

The researchers studied these genomes using a method called identity by descent (IBD) segment sharing, which is when two or more people have the same long DNA segments that they each inherited ...