Southward Migration of Germanic Peoples . The researchers examined over 1500 European genomes from people who lived during the first millennium, an eventful period in European history.

Genealogical and genetic ancestors aren’t the same thing. A DNA match − or a lack of one − may not tell you what you imagine it does about your family tree.

German researchers have matched the DNA in looted colonial-era skulls from East Africa with living descendants. The connection paves the way for the remains to be returned.

Alliances of Germanic tribes famously fought back against the Roman Empire as it attempted to expand its borders around the beginning of the millennium. The earliest information on Germanic peoples ...