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Dating back more than 4,500 years, the skeleton belonged to a middle-aged man who may have worked as a potter and likely ...
In a groundbreaking discovery, archaeologists have uncovered the final resting place of Philip II, the father of Alexander ...
More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...
Researchers have sequenced the genome of an ancient Egyptian who was buried in a pot nearly 5,000 years ago, about the time ...
In the third in his special series of articles exploring the enduring legacy of Tutankhamun, Zahi Hawass searches for the boy king’s relatives among mummies thought to belong to the royal family ...
In a groundbreaking scientific discovery, an international research team has successfully sequenced the first whole ancient ...
For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...
In Cairo’s City of the Dead, where homes are mausoleums and communities have grown among the graves, residents speak out ...
A fairytale-like castle, a sunken port city in the Caribbean, and mysterious cave paintings: Which of these places will be ...
Near the cliffs of Luxor, where ancient temples rise from the desert, a new discovery is changing how we understand one of ...
From the pyramids of Egypt to the jungle-choked ruins of Angkor Wat, from the magical desert capital of the Nabateans in ...
Once known as “Pharaoh’s Daughter”, the 3000-year-old male mummy took a bizarre path to a cupboard in Glasgow.