Reconstructing ancient DNA is no easy task, but a team of researchers from South Africa and Germany has pulled off an incredible feat. They’ve managed to reconstruct the oldest human genomes ever found in South Africa, dating back an astonishing 10,000 years! This breakthrough is helping scientists understand more about how people lived and moved in the region thousands of years ago.

So, what exactly did they find? The DNA was recovered from the remains of a man and a woman who lived nea...