Gas workers digging beneath a major capital city stumbled upon a 1,000-year-old mummy, almost on the opposite side of the ...

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in Egypt has revealed fresh evidence about the workforce behind the construction of ...

Additional tombs have been discovered too, where some of the skilled workers were laid to rest. In the tombs, the ...

For the very first time, scientists have sequenced DNA from the entire genome of an individual who lived in ancient Egypt up ...

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

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 ...

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

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 DNA bone test on a man who lived 4,500 years ago in the Nile Valley has shed new light on the rise of the Ancient Egyptian ...

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the ...

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

Off the coast of northern Africa, Egyptian and European scientists have been working cooperatively in a bid to discover more ...