Could an Egyptian coffin, dated 5,000 years ago, hold the answer to one of the night sky’s greatest mysteries? University of Portsmouth astrophysicist Dr. Or Graur has set both Egyptology and ...

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

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

Something strange happens to water as it moves through the stems of horsetail plants – and this unique process provides ...

A rock art panel near Aswan, Egypt, may depict a rare example of an elite individual from the First Dynasty, shedding light ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

The Egyptian queen Hatshepsut is a beloved figure in global history because she was a powerful female pharaoh, which was ...

The long-lost Wonder of the World was rediscovered underwater in 1968. Finally, some of its blocks have been raised to the ...

The depth of the writer’s commitment is tested when he meets with a Southern Californian tattooist proficient in ancient ...

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

This photo provided by researchers shows rock-cut tombs in Nuwayrat, Egypt where a pottery vessel in which the remains of a ...