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 ...

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 ...

Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built have yielded the first full human ...

The ancient Egyptians were very successful farmers. Find out more about farming and the ancient Egyptians in this BBC Bitesize year 5/6 history guide.

What ancient farmers can really teach us about adapting to climate change "Reclaiming ancestral farming techniques can be a step toward sustainable food systems . . ." By Chelsea Fisher.

In my book, “Rooting in a Useless Land: Ancient Farmers, Celebrity Chefs, and Environmental Justice in Yucatán,” I trace the deep history of the Maya milpa.

In my book, “Rooting in a Useless Land: Ancient Farmers, Celebrity Chefs, and Environmental Justice in Yucatán,” I trace the deep history of the Maya milpa.

Ancient Egyptian art is filled with images of reverent revelers with pointy cones on their heads. Men and women are shown with head cones in artistic depictions on everything from papyrus scrolls ...