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Ancient DNA is finally revealing who Europe’s first settlers were

Ancient DNA is turning Europe’s deep past from a sketch into a family album. Instead of guessing who first called the continent home, researchers can now read genetic traces from teeth, bones and cave ...
Greek Reporter

The Ancient Greek Myth That Gave Europe Its Name

Zeus, the king of the Olympian Gods, transformed into a white bull to abduct Europa, the princess who gave her name to the ...
ZME Science

Ancient DNA Reveals What Actually Happened to Ordinary Europeans After the Western Roman Empire Fell

Both in schoolbooks and popular imagination, 476 AD stands like a sword stroke: the year Romulus Augustulus, the teenage ...
Inverse

Origin of Multiple Sclerosis And These Common Diseases Lies in Ancient DNA

Around 5,000 years ago, at the dawn of the Bronze Age, a mass migration of peoples from the grasslands of the Eurasian steppe poured into Europe. Called the Yamnaya, these horse herders introduced ...
The Times of Israel on MSN

New secrets of human evolution unlocked in study of ancient DNA from Europe and Near East

Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years, including variants linked to celiac disease and multiple sclerosis The ...
Inverse

This Ancient European Diet May Have Been Key To Longevity — Should We Bring it Back?

Seaweed isn’t something that generally features today in European recipe books, even though it is widely eaten in Asia. But our team has discovered molecular evidence that shows this wasn’t always the ...
PBS

Rick Steves' Europe: Art of Ancient Greece

Greece’s timeless art: Golden Age temples, alluring Venuses, and exuberant Winged Victory. Ancient Greece laid the foundations of Western art. Traveling from its sun-splashed isles to the rugged ...