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Scientists found ancient human DNA on cave walls for the first time and it could rewrite the story of prehistoric art
A red dot on a cave wall in Portugal does not look like much. It’s a small mark, crusted over by minerals, easy to miss beside the much more interesting animal figures and hand stencils made by Stone ...
Scientists have, for the first time, rebuilt ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) using DNA from archaeological human remains that are more than 2,000 years old. The research, ...
An international team of cave explorers has shown that cave walls and the prehistoric rock art that adorns them can preserve human DNA for thousands of years. Using sterilized scalpels and two layers ...
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