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

Old Kingdom pyramids — II . Zahi Hawass, Tuesday 26 Nov 2024. Zahi Hawass continues his history of pyramids surviving from the ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom. Pyramid of Unas .

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

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.

A new study sequencing the first complete ancient Egyptian genome reveals the 4,500-year-old man had significant ancestry ...

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

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

Everyone knows that the Egyptian pyramids are ancient — but exactly how old are they? Historians estimate that they were built between roughly 2700 and 1500 B.C.E., with construction on Giza's ...

A 4,000 year old ancient Egyptian tomb filled with the skeletons of 11 individuals, including children, has been discovered ...