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

WASHINGTON — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to ...

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

A new study argues that the pharaoh’s statues weren’t destroyed out of revenge, but were ‘ritually deactivated’ because of ...

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...

Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country and alongside Mesopotamia was a part of the Fertile Crescent which is ...

In a historic breakthrough, scientists have fully sequenced the DNA of a 4,800-year-old Egyptian man—unlocking powerful insights into ancient ancestry, migration, and daily life in early dynastic ...

Thirty years after its discovery, pieces of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, which stood watch long ago in the harbors of ...

Elephantine, a town at Egypt's southern frontier near modern-day Aswan, provides a unique window into the urban life of some ...