The genome of a man buried at Nuwayrat in Middle Egypt about 4,500–4,800 years ago has been sequenced. Compared with published genomes of ancient individuals, most of the man’s ancestry best matches ...

Rashid’s book is as much a people’s history of Mesopotamia as it is a history of objects, great personages and notable events ...

For the first time, the complete genome of a person from ancient Egypt has been sequenced. The DNA was collected from the remains of an older man, possibly a potter, who lived over 4500 years ago. The ...

Egypt has announced the discovery of two of the largest workshops ever used to mummify human and animal corpses in ancient times. Two workshops and two tombs were discovered in Saqqara, a vast ...

CAIRO, March 25 (Reuters) - At least 2,000 mummified ram heads dating from the Ptolemaic period and a palatial Old Kingdom structure have been uncovered at the temple of Ramses II in the ancient city ...

Researchers have discovered what is thought to be the first known map of the night sky, written over 2,000 years ago. The map was discovered by scholars studying Christian texts written on an old ...