King Charles is a distant descendant of Vlad the Impaler, the 15th-century ruler who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula, and now ...

Around 2400 BC, the people who had built Stonehenge and other massive Neolithic monuments effectively vanished. Previous ...

A new ancient-DNA study suggests the Bronze Age people who transformed Britain around 2400 BC didn’t arrive from Iberia, as older narratives of the “Bell Beaker” story sometimes implied. Instead, ...

A 19th-century sculptor of Black and Indigenous ancestry was acclaimed, then overlooked. But a groundswell of scholars and ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the origins of the Bell Beaker people who migrated to Britain and replaced all of the Neolithic Stonehenge builders within a century. DNA studies have previously revealed ...

Genealogy research reveals Johnny Ritchey's family were among the first Black landowners in La Jolla in 1892, tracing the Padres legend's deep San Diego roots.

Sandra Muse Isaacs, who self-identifies as Eastern Cherokee, has been teaching Indigenous literature at the University of ...

Meuse river delta resisted population shifts that transformed most of Europe — until they helped catalyse the expansion of ‘Bell Beaker’ culture.

The economic deprivation still experienced by Black Americans is the flip side of the privilege enjoyed by slaveowners’ descendants.

Genealogist Yvette Porter Moore helps San Diego's Ritchey family trace their ancestry, overcoming barriers that many Black Americans face in genealogy research.

Keith Tavares uncovered surprising family ties to key figures in Portuguese history. Here's how he did it, and how it can ...

The project focuses on increasing the diversity of genetic data and improving outcomes of conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, and triple-negative breast cancer.