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When Rome Fell, Something New Emerged: Ancient DNA Rewrites the Story of Post-Roman Pannonia
This image has been created using Microsoft copilot When the Western Roman Empire collapsed, historians have long told us a simple story. Barbarian invasions swept through Europe, destroying Roman civilization and replacing its people with something entirely new. But a groundbreaking ancient DNA study published in Science in June 2026 is challenging that entire narrative, and it is happening in Pannonia, a region in what is now western Hungary. The…
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When Rome Fell, Something New Emerged: Ancient DNA Rewrites the Story of Post-Roman Pannonia
This image has been created using Microsoft copilot When the Western Roman Empire collapsed, historians have long told us a simple story. Barbarian invasions swept through Europe, destroying Roman civilization and replacing its people with something entirely new. But a groundbreaking ancient DNA study published in Science in June 2026 is challenging that entire narrative, and it is happening in Pannonia, a region in what is now western Hungary. The…
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How Ancient DNA Shows Mobility and Identity on Peru’s Coa
New research using ancient DNA is changing what we know about life on Peru’s coast long before the Inca Empire. Scientists studied DNA from human remains found at several coastal sites, and they combined these data with radiocarbon dating and chemical analysis of teeth and bones to learn how people moved and lived. The results show that individuals traveled at least 400 miles (about 640 km) along the coast, yet…
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How Genetics Prove Ties to Ancient Paleo-Balkans
( Image credited : This image has been created using perplexity AI as a suggestive visual) Unlocking the Ancient Roots of the Albanian People: What DNA Reveals Have you ever wondered where the Albanian people come from? Their history is a bit of a mystery. They don’t show up in old records until around the 11th century, and their language doesn’t match closely with other European ones. But now, scientists…
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Ancient DNA’s Challenge to the ‘Hygiene Hypothesis’
Recent ancient DNA research finds that gene variants selected over the past 10,000 years for fighting infections often lower the risk of allergies like asthma, not heighten it. This upends the popular idea that our allergies stem from immune systems adapted to a germier past but mismatched with today’s cleaner world. sciencenews+1 The Hygiene Hypothesis Explained The hygiene hypothesis suggests modern allergies arise because reduced exposure to microbes leaves immune…
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Ancient DNA Reveals 15,800‑Year Old Human Dog Bond in Anatolia
Ancient DNA research has uncovered the earliest solid proof that humans and dogs started living together as companions around 15,800 years ago in Anatolia (now Turkey). This bond formed among nomadic hunter-gatherers during the harsh Ice Age, well before farming or villages existed. Step by Step Examination Scientists from the University of Liverpool and others excavated the Pınarbaşı site, a rock shelter in central Anatolia used by Epipaleolithic people from…
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6,000-Year-Old Colombian Genome Found with No Modern Relatives
(Image credited: this image has been created using Microsoft Copilot) DNA extracted from human remains at the Tequendama rock shelter in the Eastern Colombian Andes, radiocarbon dated to approximately 6,000 years before present (cal BP 5900–5700). Genome sequenced from a female individual (LMC006) interred with a juvenile, affiliated with the pre-ceramic Esmeraldas cultural complex. Whole genome sequencing achieved 2.8× average coverage. Principal component analysis (PCA) and ADMIXTURE modeling positioned her…