Arthur Brand worked with police to return the items to the Netherlands’ National Archives after they were found in an attic ...

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has recovered ancient DNA from 214 known human pathogens in prehistoric humans from ...

First Nations people started trading 'trepang', or sea cucumber, in the 1700s, and now these tiny marine animals may help ...

In a new genetic study, scientists have charted the rise of 214 human diseases across ancient Europe and Asia.