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

Dating back more than 4,500 years, the skeleton belonged to a middle-aged man who may have worked as a potter and likely ...

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

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

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

Ancient Egypt’s Old Kingdom is best known for the enormous pyramids built by its kings and strung in a line through the low desert west of Memphis from Abu Rawash in the north to Meidum in the ...

Researchers have sequenced the genome of a man from ancient Egypt, revealing a genetic link to Mesopotamia. This breakthrough ...

The pyramids of the middle of the third millennium in Egypt (the Old Kingdom), built as tombs for the kings of the period, were oriented to the cardinal points with extraordinary precision. The ...

The Giza Pyramids, built to endure an eternity, have done just that. The monumental tombs are relics of Egypt's Old Kingdom era and were constructed some 4,500 years ago. Egypt's pharaohs expected ...