DNA and Contamination Analysis of the Turin Shroud Samples
A Famous Cloth Through Fire, Chapels, and Courts The Turin Shroud sits at the crossroads of faith, power, and disaster. It is a long linen cloth marked with the front and back image of a man bearing brutal wounds. For centuries it has drawn pilgrims, doubters, rulers, and scientists. What
Ancient DNA and Dynastic Rule among Iron Age Scythian Elites
The Steppe World of the Scythian Age Across Eurasia's vast grasslands in the first millennium BC, a remarkable world stretched from the Altai Mountains to the Black Sea. Horse-riding communities moved with herds across this immense belt of steppe, yet it was no empty wilderness. It was crowded
6,000 Years of Genomic History in the Middle Yellow River
The first farmers of the middle Yellow River and the people of Xiaowu More than six thousand years ago, in the heartland of the Yangshao world along the middle Yellow River, some of the earliest farming communities in northern China took root. One key site was Xiaowu in western Henan,Latest Articles
Post-Viking Early Christian DNA of Children in Scandinavia
Children in the Christian Graveyard Children's bones are notoriously difficult to interpret—smaller, more fragile, and resistant to the methods that reveal sex, age, and status in adults. Yet without children, no picture of past society is complete. In early Christian Scandinavia, this challenge intensifies: the spread of
The Howard Family
Who the Howard family was The Howard family was one of the great powerhouses of English noble history, a house of dukes, earls, soldiers, courtiers, and survivors, most famously known as the family of the Dukes of Norfolk and the Earls of Arundel. In haplogroup terms, the primary family line
The Paston Family
The Paston Family Who the Pastons were The Paston family were one of the most famous gentry houses of late medieval England, rooted in Norfolk and remembered above all because they left behind something most families did not: their voices. Linked here with the primary family haplogroup I2a1b2a2a2b, the Pastons
The Noble House de Saddington
The Noble House de Saddington Background The de Saddington family was an English noble and landed house rooted in Leicestershire, its name taken from the village of Saddington itself, in the old heartland of the Midlands. Like many medieval English gentry families, they grew out of place, property, and service:
The Noble House of Bardolf
The Noble House of Bardolf Background The Bardolf family were a medieval English baronial house, rooted above all in eastern England and especially in Norfolk, and their story belongs squarely to the hard-edged world of Plantagenet aristocracy. Their linked primary haplogroup here is R1b1a1b1a1a2a1a1, a branch associated in ancient DNA
Clan Armstrong
Clan Armstrong Background Clan Armstrong was one of the great riding families of the Scottish Borders, rooted above all in Liddesdale, Eskdale, and the rough frontier country of the western marches between Scotland and England. This was not a polite, courtly landscape. It was a hard border society of watchfulness,
Spanish Habsburg
Spanish Habsburg Background The Spanish Habsburgs were the Spanish ruling branch of the wider House of Habsburg, a dynasty that began in the old Habsburg heartlands of what is now Switzerland and Austria before spreading its power across Europe through shrewd marriages, inheritance, and politics. In Spain, this branch came
The House of Vauloger
Who were the House of Vauloger? The House of Vauloger was a French noble family rooted in provincial lordship, estate continuity, heraldry, and the long memory of landholding society. Their name has all the marks of a place-based lineage, the sort of family identity that grew directly out of aCivilizations
Scythians Discussion
Dedicated for all DNA, Analysis Results, History, Research topics related to: Scythians Scythians had a reputation as the epitome of savagery and barbarism - they were among the earliest peoples to master mounted warfare. They lived in tent-covered wagons and fought with composite bows shot from horseback. With great mobility,
Ostrogoths Discussion
Dedicated for all DNA, Analysis Results, History, Research topics related to: Ostrogoths Originating from Scandinavia, the Goths of Eastern Europe were shattered when Attila and the Huns blasted onto the scene. The Gothic kingdom was split - those who crossed the Danube to enter the Roman Empire became the Visigoths.
Gepids Discussion
Dedicated for all DNA, Analysis Results, History, Research topics related to: Gepids Gepids were a Germanic tribe realted to the Goths, described as tall and blond-haired. The Gepids fought alongside the Huns against the Roman Empire around 440 AD. Later the Gepids founded a kingdom known as Gepidia in the
Yoruba Peoples Discussion
Dedicated for all DNA, Analysis Results, History, Research topics related to: Yoruba Peoples The Yoruba people are an African ethnic group that inhabits western Africa. They developed out of earlier Mesolithic Volta-Niger populations by the first millennium BC. The Yoruba were the dominant cultural force in southern Nigeria as farHaplogroups and Noble Lines
The Howard Family
Who the Howard family was The Howard family was one of the great powerhouses of English noble history, a house of dukes, earls, soldiers, courtiers, and survivors, most famously known as the family of the Dukes of Norfolk and the Earls of Arundel. In haplogroup terms, the primary family line
The Paston Family
The Paston Family Who the Pastons were The Paston family were one of the most famous gentry houses of late medieval England, rooted in Norfolk and remembered above all because they left behind something most families did not: their voices. Linked here with the primary family haplogroup I2a1b2a2a2b, the Pastons
The Noble House de Saddington
The Noble House de Saddington Background The de Saddington family was an English noble and landed house rooted in Leicestershire, its name taken from the village of Saddington itself, in the old heartland of the Midlands. Like many medieval English gentry families, they grew out of place, property, and service:
The Noble House of Bardolf
The Noble House of Bardolf Background The Bardolf family were a medieval English baronial house, rooted above all in eastern England and especially in Norfolk, and their story belongs squarely to the hard-edged world of Plantagenet aristocracy. Their linked primary haplogroup here is R1b1a1b1a1a2a1a1, a branch associated in ancient DNALatest Articles
Post-Viking Early Christian DNA of Children in Scandinavia
Children in the Christian Graveyard Children's bones are notoriously difficult to interpret—smaller, more fragile, and resistant to the methods that reveal sex, age, and status in adults. Yet without children, no picture of past society is complete. In early Christian Scandinavia, this challenge intensifies: the spread of
The Howard Family
Who the Howard family was The Howard family was one of the great powerhouses of English noble history, a house of dukes, earls, soldiers, courtiers, and survivors, most famously known as the family of the Dukes of Norfolk and the Earls of Arundel. In haplogroup terms, the primary family line
The Paston Family
The Paston Family Who the Pastons were The Paston family were one of the most famous gentry houses of late medieval England, rooted in Norfolk and remembered above all because they left behind something most families did not: their voices. Linked here with the primary family haplogroup I2a1b2a2a2b, the Pastons
The Noble House de Saddington
The Noble House de Saddington Background The de Saddington family was an English noble and landed house rooted in Leicestershire, its name taken from the village of Saddington itself, in the old heartland of the Midlands. Like many medieval English gentry families, they grew out of place, property, and service:
The Noble House of Bardolf
The Noble House of Bardolf Background The Bardolf family were a medieval English baronial house, rooted above all in eastern England and especially in Norfolk, and their story belongs squarely to the hard-edged world of Plantagenet aristocracy. Their linked primary haplogroup here is R1b1a1b1a1a2a1a1, a branch associated in ancient DNA
Clan Armstrong
Clan Armstrong Background Clan Armstrong was one of the great riding families of the Scottish Borders, rooted above all in Liddesdale, Eskdale, and the rough frontier country of the western marches between Scotland and England. This was not a polite, courtly landscape. It was a hard border society of watchfulness,
Spanish Habsburg
Spanish Habsburg Background The Spanish Habsburgs were the Spanish ruling branch of the wider House of Habsburg, a dynasty that began in the old Habsburg heartlands of what is now Switzerland and Austria before spreading its power across Europe through shrewd marriages, inheritance, and politics. In Spain, this branch came
