Both in schoolbooks and popular imagination, 476 AD stands like a sword stroke: the year Romulus Augustulus, the teenage ...
A new analysis of 258 ancient genomes from southern Germany reveals that the fall of the Western Roman Empire triggered gradual genetic mixing, not mass barbarian invasions. Researchers found ...
A genomic analysis of people buried on the border of the ancient Roman Empire show how distinct groups combined after the ...
The story behind what happened to Roman civilisation was revealed by reading the DNA of the dead.
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