Archaeologists are piecing together the world’s oldest known rune stone. It could shed light on the origins of early written Germanic languages and who inscribed it.

D NA’s power to illuminate humanity’s past never ceases to amaze. Collected from those now alive, it shows how their ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

Regardless of whether Russia wins or loses in Ukraine, one thing is certain: the Russian military will have to be rebuilt. With its arsenal depleted and its reputation battered, Russia will have ...

To overcome this, Reich and his colleagues, including scientists in Russia and Ukraine, generated genome data from 428 ancient individuals, including hundreds of Yamnaya people and individuals who ...

This unique degree programme offers training in an unparalleled range of ancient languages and their associated history, culture and textual traditions. Students study Hebrew and either Greek or Latin ...

Diplomats in the economic section, backed by the Treasury Department in Washington, argued ardently that radical free-market reforms were the only path for post-Soviet Russia and that democracy ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Dutch bank ING has agreed to sell its Russian business to a Moscow-based company, taking a €700mn hit to ...

Russian prosecutors are seeking to recover nearly $33-million of funds that they say were allocated for the defence of the western Kursk region, invaded by Ukraine last year, but stolen instead by ...

As reserves of armored vehicles run out amid catastrophic losses in Ukraine and western Russia, the Russian military is normalizing assaults in civilian cars. And not just any civilian cars ...

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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia on Sunday claimed its troops had captured a strategically important town in eastern Ukraine as part of a grinding campaign to weaken Kyiv’s grip on the country’s ...