Scientists discover Bronze Age plague DNA in 4,000-year-old sheep remains, shedding light on how ancient diseases spread ...

Scientists investigating an ancient mystery have uncovered the first evidence that a Bronze Age strain of plague infected ...

Archaeologists working in the Southern Ural Mountains have uncovered an unexpected clue about how an ancient plague once ...

The Faroe Islands, an archipelago between Norway and Iceland, were once believed to have been settled by Viking explorers in the mid-9th century CE. Thanks to new analysis of ancient sheep DNA, the ...

The team of geneticists and archaeologists from Ireland, France, Iran, Germany, and Austria have been able to sequence DNA from a mummified 1600-year-old sheep. The sheep was found in an ancient ...

A lone sheep leg, likely discarded by hungry mine workers, lay hidden in a salt mine in Iran for over a thousand years, during which time the salinity of the surrounding environment naturally ...

A team of geneticists and archaeologists has sequenced the DNA from a 1,600-year-old sheep mummy from an ancient Iranian salt mine, Chehrabad. This remarkable specimen has revealed sheep husbandry ...

The Marco Polo sheep, native to Central Asia, is the largest species of sheep in the world, which makes it a tantalizing target for trophy hunters. For nearly a decade, Montana ranchers illegally ...

DNA from the skin of this mummified sheep leg allowed researchers to study sheep husbandry practices in ancient Iran. Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum and Zanjan Cultural Heritage Centre, ...

Since the mid-1980s, variations on the DNA fingerprinting theme have left their marks on diverse fields. By comparing distinctive DNA sequences, aberrations, or numbers of repeats among individuals, ...

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Most of us are familiar with the fact that women live longer than men. But fellas, if we told you there was one thing that could be done to increase your lifespan, would you do it? In a study ...