A new study claims the Israelites were not indigenous to Canaan but descended from the ancient European Steppes.

As thousands of Chinese families take DNA tests, the results are upending what adoptees abroad thought they knew about their ...

For the first time, a federally recognized Indigenous tribe has led a genetic study confirming their ancestral connection to ...

Leonardo da Vinci was the illegitimate son of a notary and a woman whose identity remains shrouded in mystery. He died in ...

A joint study by researchers from the University of Huddersfield (United Kingdom), the Smurfit Institute of Genetics at the ...

By analyzing ancient and modern DNA, scientists are uncovering the genetic origins of the Greek people, shaped over millennia ...

The Phoenician civilization, emerging from Bronze Age city-states in the Levant ... highlight the power of ancient DNA in its ability to shed light on the ancestry and mobility of historical ...

Contrary to long-held beliefs that the Phoenicians originated solely in the Middle East, the research uncovers a diverse ancestry that includes Greek DNA. Previously ... were not a homogenous group ...

ANCESTORS: Identity and DNA in the Levant ... and cultural heritage of this nexus of peoples has on his or her ancestry. The answer, in many cases: Almost everything. Pierre Zalloua, a Lebanese ...

Scientists examined ancient DNA to trace the ancestry of the people of Carthage ... including in the Levant, Iberia, North Africa, Sicily, Sardinia and Ibiza. Phoenician cities and their ...