The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

Radiocarbon testing revealed a stunning fact about the 10,000-year-old mummy of a middle-aged man who was wrapped in a rabbit ...

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

Check the Ancestry app! Cheryl Butler-Brayboy stopped short in her tracks on her way to bed one evening when those words ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

In “The Stained Glass Window,” David Levering Lewis delves into his ancestry to create a fuller picture of his family and its place in American history.

“So even if there was another long lost sibling that showed up, we figure they’ll find us on Ancestry,” she said.

A Long Island man was switched at birth with a baby born minutes apart who had his same last name — and only learned the awful truth through Ancestry.com, he told The Post in heartbreaking detail.

Only 14% of DNA used in medical research is from people with non-European ancestry. Two nonprofits want to change that.

The direct-to-consumer DNA testing service 23andMe filed for bankruptcy earlier this month, putting millions of customers' ...

A Georgia woman’s attempt to trace her family history turned disturbing when a DNA test revealed she is related to her mother’s stepfather, according to investigators. Getty Images/iStockphoto ...

University of Michigan researchers have developed a statistical method that can be used for such wide-ranging applications as tracing your ancestry, modeling disease spread and studying how ...