Over 5,300 years ago, ancient herders known as the Yamna people emerged from the steppes of what is now Ukraine, going on to ...

In the Arizona desert, researchers are uncovering extraordinary details about the peoples who have inhabited this land since ...

Harvard researchers traced the origins of the vast Indo-European language family to the Caucasus-Lower Volga region, identifying the ancestral population that gave rise to more than 400 languages, in ...

Records from 500 years ago document floods, famine and death in 16th century Transylvania due to wild weather swings during the Little Ice Age.

The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that began during around 1300 CE and lasted until about 1850. Average ...

Glaciers, sediments, and pollen can be used to reconstruct the climate of the past. Beyond "nature's archive," other sources, ...

Droughts, extreme heat and destructive flooding plagued the region in the sixteenth century, historical documents show.