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

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

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

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

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

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

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

Archaeologists have discovered multiple artifacts depicting ancient Greek deities in the ancient city of Finziade in Sicily.

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

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

Egyptian tombs yield all manner of surprises. One of the most macabre, recalls archaeologist Dr Mary Hartley, emerged during ...

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