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

Dating back more than 4,500 years, the skeleton belonged to a middle-aged man who may have worked as a potter and likely ...

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

The pottery wheel from Mesopotamia first appeared in Egypt at about the time the man lived, a period when the earliest ...

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

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

Ancient DNA has revealed links between the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the ...

The pyramid complex became falsely standardised during the ancient Egyptian Fifth Dynasty, and the patterns set by the first king, Userkaf, held for the remainder of the Old Kingdom. The pyramids ...

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

Scientists have sequenced the oldest known DNA from ancient Egypt. It belonged to a potter who lived 4,500 years ago. This ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

Researchers have sequenced the first whole ancient Egyptian genome from an individual who lived 4,500 to 4,800 years ago — ...