These years marked the dramatic rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the dawn of the Vikings, and the migration of several Germanic groups throughout the continent. The origins of Germanic peoples is ...

The Vikings ... map how people moving around Europe shapes ancestry. By analysing thousands of human remains in mainland Europe between 1 and 1,000 CE, they found three distinct waves of migration ...

Using a refined method of analyzing ancient DNA ancestry, they analyzed genetic data to map people’s movements ... the fall of the Roman Empire, the Migration Period, and the Viking Age, based on over ...