Sequencing DNA from those who lived long ago Ancient DNA is a new and rapidly growing field, with a Nobel Prize awarded in 2022 to Svante Pääbo for his foundational work. Using samples taken ...

a sacrilegious Viking, killed for stealing from the church. He was flayed and his skin mounted on the door as a warning. Alan did manage to extract identifiable DNA from the sample. But when he ...

For more than 100 years, a high-ranking Viking warrior was assumed to be male. Dr Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson has been studying the grave found in the 19th Century. Her team carried out a DNA ...

In one case, archeologists determined not only the age of a Viking ship found in Denmark ... the pattern bears a remarkably close resemblance to a DNA fingerprint. (See Create a DNA Fingerprint.) ...

A genetic match to an ancient person doesn't mean you're more related genealogically. Mark Edward Atkinson/Tetra Images via Getty Images ...

In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long after we made the data publicly available, people started comparing their own DNA with ...