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

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants ...

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Maronite Catholic conference features Aramaic liturgy and first-class relics of the saints, including the crib of Jesus, the ...

In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing unprecedented ...

Roughly 4,000-year-old bones from Chile contain genetic evidence of leprosy, suggesting that a rare form of the bacteria that causes the disease may have been circulating in the Americas and long ...