The Assyrians are the indigenous people of Mesopotamia and have a history spanning over 6700 years. Today, the Assyrians are the descendants of the ancient Assyrian Empire and one of the earliest ...

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The Black Death peaked in Europe between 1348 and 1350, wiping out about 60 percent of London’s population. According to genome analysis comparing the ancient sample and a recent outbreak in ...

Ancient-genomics researchers have pinpointed ... and mixed with a diverse group of hunter-gatherers living along the Black Sea. The same Caucasus-Lower Volga ancestry also appeared in ancient ...

As Russia delves the depths of the Black Sea in search of the crashed US drone, we take a look at what else might be lurking beneath the waves. From ancient shipwrecks to huge underwater rivers ...

Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë was the seat of power of Kush, an ancient kingdom and ... through repeated invasions from Assyrians, Persians, and Greeks.