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

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The first full ancient Egyptian genome reveals ancestry from both North Africa and Mesopotamia. The individual likely worked ...

Researchers in the UK have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from an individual who lived more than ...

Egypt is celebrating a new wave of remarkable discoveries that reinforce its status as a global centre of archaeological ...

Three ancient tombs have been found in southern Egypt, which may shed new light on one of the least understood chapters in ...

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

Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the teeth of a remarkably well-preserved skeleton found in a sealed funeral pot in ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a lost city in Peru that thrived 3,500 years ago, likely as a potential contemporary of early ...

In a Nutshell The first complete ancient Egyptian genome shows this 4,800-year-old individual had mostly North African ...

In Luxor, Egypt, a ‘lost city of gold’ is gradually revealing the story of its construction and sudden abandonment more than 3,000 years ago. Its remains could reveal more about the troubled years of ...

Broken, Burnt, Buried explores what the practice of breaking everyday objects tells us about the life of ordinary people in ...