Ancient DNA suggests the ancestors of today’s Indigenous Americans arrived no earlier than 21,000 years ago.

Scientists have discovered a new species of wild cat for the first time in more than a century, a Bolivian researcher told AFP on Thursday.

Ancient DNA suggests Jomon people evolved several genetic adaptations for surviving the extreme cold of the Ice Age.

A bacterium found in the tooth of a 700-year-old Bolivian mummy shows scarlet fever was circulating in the Americas long before Europeans arrived.

Between 29,000 and 19,000 years ago, the planet experienced some of its coldest temperatures and drastic landscape changes at the peak of the Ice Age, during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), the period...

When you think about it, it seems remarkable that humanity is still here.

By Edwin Conde Villarreal, El Diario: National Museum of Archaeology The facial reconstruction of mummies will restore the identity of pre-Hispanic inhabitants of the Bolivian highlands, according …

The imperial dominance of the ancient Wari Empire at the Huaca Pucllana site in Lima, Peru, was likely not achieved through population replacement, according to a study published June 1, 2016 in the o...

A major genomic study of prehistoric hunter-gatherers from Japan has uncovered evidence that the ancestors of the Jomon developed genetic adaptations that helped them survive the extreme cold of the.....

How did Homo sapiens thrive in extreme environments during their dispersal across Eurasia? Unraveling adaptations that enabled human survival during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) remains critical. He...

Academic paper says often illicit trade exposes enthusiasts – and postal workers handling items – to serious risks

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Researchers say they found the first direct, molecular proof of the deadly trajectory the virus took

Smallpox is an age-old scourge with a terrible history.

Ancient DNA from Chilean mummies is the first ever molecular evidence that European colonizers brought smallpox to the Americas, decimating Indigenous populations.

Viral sequences from Chilean mummies confirm the disease was introduced from Europe.

Según un estudio de ‘Science’, la Tierra alcanzó su mayor diversidad lingüística entre 1.000 y 3.000 años atrás, con un número de lenguas unas diez veces superior a las 7.500 actuales

The museum in La Paz had been closed for a year; its new permanent collection exhibition includes a mummified girl repatriated from the US and an Andean sculpture that was stolen by a Swiss traveller ...

Un absoluto silencio domina una de las salas del Museo Nacional de Arqueología (Munarq). Detrás de vitrinas y depósitos descansan cuerpos que sobrevivieron siglos bajo tierra y que ahora responden pre...

La Paz, 5 jul (EFE).- Vasijas, estatuillas, ropajes funerarios, esculturas y momias prehispánicas so...

La Paz, 26 de junio de 2026 (ABI).- Las investigaciones desarrolladas en Bolivia sobre las momias que resguarda el Museo Nacional de Arqueología (Munarq), ubicado en la ciudad de La Paz, forman parte del más reciente reportaje de la revista National Geographic, que muestra el trabajo de especialistas dedicados al estudio de restos humanos momificados […]

Des chercheurs ont isolé des microorganismes vieux de plus de 5 300 ans présents sur la célèbre momie des glaces Ötzi. Leurs découvertes pourraient transformer notre compréhension du microbiote humain...

Scientists at the world’s only mummy research institute are combing crypts and caverns for ancient remains—and using new tools to gather fresh insight about how our ancestors once lived.

Streptococcus pyogenes is a human pathogen responsible for a range of diseases. Here, the authors reconstruct an ancient S. pyogenes genome from a pre-Columbian Bolivian mummy, supporting that the pat...

Streptococcus pyogenes is a human pathogen responsible for a range of diseases. Here, the authors reconstruct an ancient S. pyogenes genome from a pre-Columbian Bolivian mummy, supporting that the pat...

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An Ancient Mummy’s Tooth Could Rewrite Script of Scarlet Fever in the New World: European colonists are off the hook for this one

Researchers identified the pathogen’s genetic material while examining a tooth from a naturally mummified skull housed at MUNARQ – the National Museum of Archaeology in La Paz. Using a met...

A DNA analysis of pathogens from a pre-Hispanic mummy revealed that the bacterium that causes scarlet fever and strep throat was present in the Americas prior to European colonization.

Scarlet fever was probably not introduced to the Americas by European colonists, after all.

Un hallazgo genético en una momia andina obliga a replantear cuándo y cómo surgieron algunas de las enfermedades más temidas de la historia.