A runestone is a large stone carved with runic inscriptions — usually in the early Germanic alphabet known as the ... turned out to belong to a single ancient runestone. The stone had been ...

In a 2017 study in the American Journal of Human Genetics, researchers looked at the ancient DNA of five Canaanites who lived between 3,650 and 3,750 years ago and who were buried in Sidon, an ...

An ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an early alphabet spread its culture far and wide — but not its DNA, finds a 23 April Nature study 1 of hundreds of ancient human genomes.

A newly uncovered ancient Egyptian tomb is shedding light ... that will help to “further our understanding of this once-obscure period of Egyptian history.” Abydos Dynasty kings such as ...