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Ancient DNA has revealed links between the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the ...

The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the ...

But while experts now know a fair amount about ancient Egyptian life, they still understand very little about the ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the full genome of a 4,800-year-old Egyptian man. The DNA reveals North African ...

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

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...

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

Some of the female pharaoh's statues were "ritually deactivated," a new study finds. For the past 100 years, Egyptologists ...