Mariette Le Roux

Mariette Le Roux is based in Paris, France, and is a journalist and News Editor at Agence France-Presse (AFP)

How Horse-Riding in Eurasia advantaged Huns, Mongols over Farmers

Paris (AFP) – Horse domestication changed the face of Eurasia, helping ancient Huns and Mongols supplant western “Indo-European” farmers in an incremental westward drive that also brought Hepatitis B and plague, scientists said Wednesday. In three studies published in the journals Science and Nature, experts reported sequencing the genomes of dozens of humans who lived […]