They didn’t just find an amulet. There were also bracelets, rings, pearls, and a necklace made of coins, all stashed in an ...

While some of that may be true, a new genetic study of Viking DNA is flipping much of this history on its head. In the largest genetic study of Viking DNA ever, scientists have found that Vikings ...

In the 1800s, archaeologists dug up a major Norse find in Sweden. Recent studies reveal there's even more to get excited ...

Sequencing DNA from those who lived long ago Ancient DNA is a new and rapidly growing field, with a Nobel Prize awarded in 2022 to Svante Pääbo for his foundational work. Using samples taken ...

Shetland could be the first place in Scotland to introduce widespread genetic screening to prevent a number of life-threatening conditions. | ITV National News ...

The researchers looked at ancient DNA spanning 2,000 years of Scandinavian ... at the movement of peoples into the region during the Viking Age, more than a millennium ago. These genomes are ...

Back in the first millennium A.D., waves of human migration across Europe created an elaborate genetic puzzle that researchers have now started to unravel with a leap in DNA analysis ... 400 A.D. to 1 ...

Archaeologists started excavating the massive farm in 2020 and spent years cleaning, analyzing and documenting their hundreds ...

The skeletal remains could help scientists unearth some of the mysteries around Viking DNA, and provide new answers about this centuries-old civilization. The skeletons were reportedly preserved ...

Viking invasions made a lasting impression on the DNA map of Ireland, according to a massive study carried out by Trinity College Dublin. In their study "Insular Celtic population structure and ...

It’s well established that Viking explorers made it to North America ... meet Indigenous societies—genetic analysis of walrus DNA indicates their ivory trade routes may have been complex ...

In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long after we made the data publicly available, people started comparing their own DNA with ...