Mapping the Ancient Pathogens: Unraveling the Evolutionary History of Human Disease in Eurasia Sven July 11, 2025 – 4 min read Share this post Papers Tracing Leonardo: DNA Signals from da Vinci–Linked Artifacts Biological Signatures on Leonardo-Linked Objects Biological Signatures on Leonardo-Linked Objects: A Comprehensive Analysis of Renaissance DNA This comprehensive study explores how traces of life – from plants and animals to microbes and humans – still cling to Renaissance drawings and centuries-old letters. By taking the gentlest possible swabs from the surfaces of By Caterina • 5 min read Papers Kinship and long-distance genetic networks in Early Bronze Age Lower Austria Early Bronze Age Social Structure & Kinship in Lower Austria Early Bronze Age Social Structure & Kinship in Lower Austria The article takes the reader into the farmsteads and graveyards of Early Bronze Age Lower Austria, north and south of the Danube, to explore how people lived, married, moved and By Sven • 9 min read Papers Huns, Goths and the Turbulent World Behind the Tyniec Cemetery - Southwest Poland The article drops the reader straight into one of the most dramatic episodes in late antiquity: the Migration Period in Central Europe, when the arrival of the Huns from Central Asia set whole peoples in motion and reshaped the map from the Black Sea to the Rhine. Against this sweeping By Jamie L • 8 min read Papers Tracing Leonardo: DNA Signals from da Vinci–Linked Artifacts Biological Signatures on Leonardo-Linked Objects Biological Signatures on Leonardo-Linked Objects: A Comprehensive Analysis of Renaissance DNA This comprehensive study explores how traces of life – from plants and animals to microbes and humans – still cling to Renaissance drawings and centuries-old letters. By taking the gentlest possible swabs from the surfaces of By Caterina • 5 min read Papers Kinship and long-distance genetic networks in Early Bronze Age Lower Austria Early Bronze Age Social Structure & Kinship in Lower Austria Early Bronze Age Social Structure & Kinship in Lower Austria The article takes the reader into the farmsteads and graveyards of Early Bronze Age Lower Austria, north and south of the Danube, to explore how people lived, married, moved and By Sven • 9 min read Papers Huns, Goths and the Turbulent World Behind the Tyniec Cemetery - Southwest Poland The article drops the reader straight into one of the most dramatic episodes in late antiquity: the Migration Period in Central Europe, when the arrival of the Huns from Central Asia set whole peoples in motion and reshaped the map from the Black Sea to the Rhine. Against this sweeping By Jamie L • 8 min read Papers Unravelling Columbus’ Lineage: Forensic SNP Sequencing Identifies 17th–18th-Century Descendants The Hidden Crypt of Columbus' Descendants in Gelves The Hidden Crypt of Columbus' Descendants Beneath the Church Floor: A Sealed Family Pantheon Deep beneath the church of Santa MarĂa de Gracia in Gelves, near Seville, lies a family crypt that for centuries remained sealed by ecclesiastical authority. This By Caterina • 6 min read Papers Plague, Farmers, and Foragers: Ancient DNA Reveals Interaction and Disease Among Neolithic Gotlanders Neolithic Farmers and Foragers on Gotland Neolithic Farmers and Foragers on Gotland: Two Worlds on One Island The windswept limestone island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea witnessed an extraordinary coexistence during the Middle Neolithic period, where two fundamentally different ways of life shared the same landscape for more than By Sven • 4 min read Papers Ancestors in the Walls: Bronze Age Italy By Caterina • 3 min read
Papers Tracing Leonardo: DNA Signals from da Vinci–Linked Artifacts Biological Signatures on Leonardo-Linked Objects Biological Signatures on Leonardo-Linked Objects: A Comprehensive Analysis of Renaissance DNA This comprehensive study explores how traces of life – from plants and animals to microbes and humans – still cling to Renaissance drawings and centuries-old letters. By taking the gentlest possible swabs from the surfaces of By Caterina • 5 min read
Papers Kinship and long-distance genetic networks in Early Bronze Age Lower Austria Early Bronze Age Social Structure & Kinship in Lower Austria Early Bronze Age Social Structure & Kinship in Lower Austria The article takes the reader into the farmsteads and graveyards of Early Bronze Age Lower Austria, north and south of the Danube, to explore how people lived, married, moved and By Sven • 9 min read
Papers Huns, Goths and the Turbulent World Behind the Tyniec Cemetery - Southwest Poland The article drops the reader straight into one of the most dramatic episodes in late antiquity: the Migration Period in Central Europe, when the arrival of the Huns from Central Asia set whole peoples in motion and reshaped the map from the Black Sea to the Rhine. Against this sweeping By Jamie L • 8 min read
Papers Tracing Leonardo: DNA Signals from da Vinci–Linked Artifacts Biological Signatures on Leonardo-Linked Objects Biological Signatures on Leonardo-Linked Objects: A Comprehensive Analysis of Renaissance DNA This comprehensive study explores how traces of life – from plants and animals to microbes and humans – still cling to Renaissance drawings and centuries-old letters. By taking the gentlest possible swabs from the surfaces of By Caterina • 5 min read
Papers Kinship and long-distance genetic networks in Early Bronze Age Lower Austria Early Bronze Age Social Structure & Kinship in Lower Austria Early Bronze Age Social Structure & Kinship in Lower Austria The article takes the reader into the farmsteads and graveyards of Early Bronze Age Lower Austria, north and south of the Danube, to explore how people lived, married, moved and By Sven • 9 min read
Papers Huns, Goths and the Turbulent World Behind the Tyniec Cemetery - Southwest Poland The article drops the reader straight into one of the most dramatic episodes in late antiquity: the Migration Period in Central Europe, when the arrival of the Huns from Central Asia set whole peoples in motion and reshaped the map from the Black Sea to the Rhine. Against this sweeping By Jamie L • 8 min read
Papers Unravelling Columbus’ Lineage: Forensic SNP Sequencing Identifies 17th–18th-Century Descendants The Hidden Crypt of Columbus' Descendants in Gelves The Hidden Crypt of Columbus' Descendants Beneath the Church Floor: A Sealed Family Pantheon Deep beneath the church of Santa MarĂa de Gracia in Gelves, near Seville, lies a family crypt that for centuries remained sealed by ecclesiastical authority. This By Caterina • 6 min read
Papers Plague, Farmers, and Foragers: Ancient DNA Reveals Interaction and Disease Among Neolithic Gotlanders Neolithic Farmers and Foragers on Gotland Neolithic Farmers and Foragers on Gotland: Two Worlds on One Island The windswept limestone island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea witnessed an extraordinary coexistence during the Middle Neolithic period, where two fundamentally different ways of life shared the same landscape for more than By Sven • 4 min read
