A mummy in Egypt has yielded a shocking discovery: the DNA of the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis—thousands of years before ...

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

Researchers in Poland have made quite the unique discovery, they have found the remains of the first embalmed pregnant ...

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

An Egyptian genome has finally been unraveled, thanks to a sample from an at least 4,500 year-old mummy dating back to the ...

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

The 'elegant' face of an ancient Egyptian priestess whose singing was said to be able to calm the gods can be seen for the ...

We all know the New Kingdom mummies from ancient Egypt were preserved with a certain sophistication and advanced skill that ...

The oldest confirmed case of the illness in an ancient Egyptian mummy has shown the bubonic plague was around thousands of years before the Black Death in Europe ...

The fact that Ramesses II lived to around age 90 was, in itself, quite a feat in ancient Egypt. At the time "most people died well before their 40th birthday and he was on the throne for two or three ...

Nefertari was the beloved wife of Rameses II, and her extravagant tomb proves it. Its restored paintings tell an interesting ...

The Manchester Museum in northern England is asking visitors whether it should withdraw an ancient Egyptian mummy from its ...