In a groundbreaking scientific discovery, an international research team has successfully sequenced the first whole ancient ...

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 ...

Ancient Egypt in North Africa was one of the most powerful and influential civilizations in the region for over 3,000 years, from around 3100 B.C to 30 B.C.

A rare discovery of a tomb from ancient Egypt's Middle Kingdom near Luxor may hold several generations from a single family. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Three tombs dating back thousands of years have been unearthed in an ancient Egyptian burial complex.. The tombs of three prominent statesmen from the New Kingdom era (1539 to 1077 BCE) have been ...

Ancient Egypt breakthrough as 3,500-year-old discovery fuels country's hopes Archaeologists have discovered the tombs of three prominent Ancient Egyptians dating back over 3,500 years.

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 of Abydos in southern ...

The 4,300-year-old mummy of an ancient Egyptian named "HqA-Sps," or Hekashepes, is seen in a 45-ton limestone sarcophagus in Saqqara, outside Cairo, Egypt, in a photo shared with CBS News by ...