Her body was positioned to face the setting sun at the winter solstice, while her sarcophagus was aligned with the heliacal rising of Sirius; the brightest star in the sky, associated with the annual ...

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

A new DNA analysis of a 4,400-year-old skeleton from ancient Egypt has found that the individual, an elite official buried ...

Before Egypt’s dynasties, rural rituals and astral burials shaped beliefs that later defined the divine and sacred order.

Researchers have sequenced the first whole ancient Egyptian genome from an individual who lived 4,500 to 4,800 years ago — the oldest DNA sample from Egypt to date. The body belongs to an adult male ...

Peaches were green; carrots were slender and yellow. Where are we headed next? Well, bananas with a vaccine punch, and ...

When it comes to picking the healthiest cereal options, ancient grain in cereal have been stealing the spotlight lately. But ...

From the pyramids of Egypt to the jungle-choked ruins of Angkor Wat, from the magical desert capital of the Nabateans in ...

Scientists decoded the 4,500-year-old genome of an Egyptian buried like royalty but built like a laborer—rewriting ancient ...

Egypt has always been revered for its prime location within the MENA region, but there are other things that make it a top ...

Archaeologists in Poland have unearthed massive 5,500-year-old tombs, predating Egypt's pyramids. These trapezoidal structures, dubbed "Polish pyramids," were built by the Neolithic Funnelbeaker ...