New landmark research has successfully mapped 37,000 years of infectious disease across ancient human populations.

Researchers have mapped the spread of infectious diseases in humans across millennia, to reveal how human-animal interactions permanently transformed our ...

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 ...

How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting Their Story is its starting point, specifically, determining where it was. He hopes ...

Laura Spinney’s “Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global” explores the roots of language and how it spread and changed across time and place.

Decline, Transformation, and Legacy By the 3rd century BCE, the classical Scythians of the Pontic steppe began to fade from historical centrality.

Just west of Grozny, Chechnya, lies the ancient Alkhan-Kala necropolis. The Alani people, or Alans, of the Pontic-Caspian steppe once sent their dead to the afterlife here.

Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos and the town’s bishop Tychikos are at loggerheads over the organisation of an event next month to mark May 19, the day observed by Pontic Greeks as the “day of ...

Map of the Yamnaya culture across the Pontic Steppe, from which the Greeks descend. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY 4.0 A new study has revealed that ancient Greeks are descended from the Yamnaya ...

Steppe ancestry in Greece and Armenia was derived directly from Yamnaya populations of the Pontic steppe without significant admixture of locals.