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

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The individual lived 4,500 years ago, and his genome is offering new insights into ancient Egyptians and the lives they led.

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

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

Scientists decoded the DNA of an ancient Egyptian man, uncovering surprising links to both North Africa and Mesopotamia in a ...

The story of the “Pharaoh’s Curse” haunted archaeologists for hundreds of years. It started with the excavation of King ...

Across history, ancient civilizations crafted prototypes for many of the modern mechanisms that have become integral to ...

Astronomers detect 10 billion-year-old radio waves from a distant galaxy cluster SpARCS1049, revealing a mini-halo that ...

Could a legendary tomb curse become a medical miracle? Scientists may have reengineered Aspergillus flavus, linked to King ...

In what is now the desert of White Sands, New Mexico, a trail of human footprints crosses the hardened bed of an extinct lake ...

The international team of scientists used a new technique to scan rocks, finding more than 1,000 beaks of ancient cephalopods ...