In a Nutshell The first complete ancient Egyptian genome shows this 4,800-year-old individual had mostly North African ...

During the third millennium B.C.E., a man was buried in a sealed ceramic pot in the Egyptian village of Nuwayrat. Now, using ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

Researchers sequenced ancient Egyptian DNA from a 4,500-year-old skeleton, revealing genetic links between early Egypt and ...

The genome of a man who lived in Egypt over 4500 years ago offers a new window on the ancient society and hints at ...

DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing ...

The individual lived 4,500 years ago, and his genome is offering new insights into ancient Egyptians and the lives they led.

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA sequencing reveals how these two populations also intermingled.

A newly sequenced genome from a 4,600-year-old Egyptian man has revealed that nearly 80% of his ancestry traces back to ...

Shattered depictions of Hatshepsut have long thought to be products of her successor’s violent hatred towards her, but a new ...