Unlike that flea-borne Black Death, this early variant had ... held that the proto-Indo-Europeans were an ancient race of north Germans—the people who made Corded Ware pots and axes.

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who ...

However, a new study analyzing the DNA of ancient people has shown that ... Even in the Bronze Age, brown skin prevailed across much of Europe, with black skin prevailing in the Iberian Peninsula ...

The findings from this analysis, published Jan. 26 in the journal Nature, are surprising because it shows that the light skin of Europeans evolved much more recently than once thought. Researchers ...