Hb D-Ouled Rabah, considered as a private marker of the Kel Kummer Tuaregs, and Hb C were found at the same gene frequency (0.015). Haplotype analysis suggests a single origin to the Hb D mutation.

The Adam Tree’s branches are so ancient that once they’re lit on fire, they can’t be put out. Thus, in order to prevent the fire from spreading, they decided to cut the whole branch off with ...

This ancient period of deep freeze, known as the Neoproterozoic Era, or “Snowball Earth,” lasted from about 1 billion to 543 million years ago. During that time, landmasses consolidated into a ...

The Hittites, an ancient Anatolian civilisation (c. 1600–1178 BCE) from present-day Türkiye, were often credited with early knowledge of iron production, not only due to the discovery of iron weapons, ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Argentina’s President Javier Milei speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, at the ...

But those experts may have a surprising new answer thanks to new research that shows the ancient people of the Philippines and ISEA may have mastered seafaring well before anyone else. Proving ...

From the rover's point of view on the ground, it's hard to tell, but this ancient shoreline on Mars seemed to lie inside a 2,050-mile-wide (3,300-kilometer-wide) impact crater called Utopia Basin.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Protesters against the Dakota Access oil pipeline congregate, Nov. 21, 2016, on a long-closed bridge on a ...

A new study of ancient DNA from fifth- to sixth-century Hun skeletons suggests they were a motley crew of mixed origin with a few connections to the Xiongnu Empire in Mongolia.

Researchers initially thought the tomb belonged to a royal wife. Then they unearthed fragments of alabaster jars that identified it as Thutmose II’s Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent Pottery shards ...

The ancient cemetery found in Trento, a northern Alpine city, includes at least 200 individual tombs, which experts believe date back to the early Iron Age, a pre-Roman period between the 9th and ...