A PRESTIGIOUS private school has held a burial ceremony for a 200-year-old skeleton it kept in its biology department. The ...

Researchers sequenced ancient Egyptian DNA from a 4,500-year-old skeleton, revealing genetic links between early Egypt and ...

Unfortunately, there are a lot of medical disorders out there that directly or indirectly affect the health of our skeleton.

More than 4,500 years ago, at the dawn of Egypt’s pyramid age, a man was laid to rest in a ceramic pot. He was then sealed ...

In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing unprecedented insight about the ancestry of a man who lived during the time when the first ...

Westnedge Park was known as Pioneer Cemetery to Kalamazoo’s early settlers. Construction workers found 200-year-old remains ...

Well-preserved genomes show a “rare” leprosy strain thriving in ancient Chile, rewriting when and where Hansen’s Disease ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan discovered Hungarian ties in a study of human remains, prompting collaboration with ...

In a disturbing turn of events, Skeletal remains believed to be that of a missing teenage girl were recovered from ...

The individual lived 4,500 years ago, and his genome is offering new insights into ancient Egyptians and the lives they led.

The first whole ancient Egyptian genome has been sequenced by researchers, taken from a man who lived 4,500 to 4,800 years ...

We don't know exactly why men are taller than women on average, but we have some genetic clues. On average, human males tend ...