New findings suggest that a mysterious solar event roughly 500 times more powerful than any recorded by scientists struck the ...

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

An international team of scientists has discovered an extreme spike in radiocarbon corresponding to the year 12350 BC during the dusk of the last Ice Age. However, the strength of the event could not ...

New research uncovers the strongest solar event ever detected — rewriting our understanding of space weather and radiocarbon ...

There’s nowhere quite like Athens. The mix of ancient ruins and modern city life is pretty surreal, and the juxtaposition of ...

Were Greece’s Neolithic ... was home to the ancient people known as Seskloans. The Sesklo settlement is the earliest known Neolithic culture in Europe, with researchers dating the presence of its ...

To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...

An ancient Middle Eastern ... ancient inhabitants of Greece and Sicily. Over time, North African ancestry entered the mix — reflecting the rise of Carthage after 500 bc.

Within the framework of the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean, co-directed by Johannes Krause, Director at the Max Planck Institute for ...