Historians have long suspected European colonists brought the smallpox-causing Orthopoxvirus variola virus to the Americas, ...

Historians have long speculated that Europeans introduced smallpox to the Americas, which then killed hundreds of millions of ...

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have recovered and analyzed the first ancient smallpox virus genomes ever identified ...

Scientists recovered ancient smallpox DNA from two Indigenous mummies in Chile, providing the first genetic evidence that the ...

Scientists have found smallpox viruses in the remains of people in Chile from around 500 years ago, revealing how the virus ...

A groundbreaking scientific discovery has provided the first molecular evidence that European colonizers brought devastating ...

(Anatoli Myshlyaev/Moment/Getty Images) Smallpox is an age-old scourge with a terrible history. Caused by the variola virus, ...

Camarones Pacific coast in northern Chile near the Inca archaeological site of Camarones 9, where two human mummies dating to ...

Ancient mummy DNA recovered in Chile has yielded the firmest evidence yet that European colonization brought smallpox to the ...

Learn how centuries-old DNA linked an extinct virus to European colonization and its spread through an Indigenous community ...

Ancient DNA from two Chilean mummies reveals the first ancient smallpox genomes found in the Americas, uncovering a vanished viral lineage.

More than 400 years ago, two people living in modern day Chile died while infected with the smallpox virus. Viral DNA found in their mummified remains has now yielded genetic evidence of when the ...