Ancient DNA is turning Europe’s deep past from a sketch into a family album. Instead of guessing who first called the continent home, researchers can now read genetic traces from teeth, bones and cave ...

Early humans in Europe weren't the only ones moving across the landscape. Dogs were traveling with them. In the largest study of its kind, published in Nature, researchers found that dogs were present ...

Two years later, after a class in ancient art history, I understood how Greek society was designed. I could imagine Pericles, the ultimate Athenian statesman, hard at work. I could see Socrates, ...