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 ...

Two Germans Share World's Longest Family Tree Through DNA two Germans discovered they're related through 3,000-yr-old cavemen.

Scientists used CT scans to ‘digitally unwrap’ the approximately 2,300-year-old undisturbed mummy of a teenage boy of high socioeconomic status. The body was equipped with 49 amulets of 21 different ...

In the third in his special series of articles exploring the enduring legacy of Tutankhamun, Zahi Hawass searches for the boy ...

More than 30 million people globally have done a family history DNA test, but few realise this multi-billion dollar ...

A CT scan study of the mummy of Pharaoh Seqenenre-Taa-II, an Egyptian ruler whose death eventually helped reunite the kingdom, revealed new details about how the king died. A recent paper suggests ...

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

An Egyptian genome has finally been unraveled, thanks to a sample from an at least 4,500 year-old mummy dating back to the ...

In a groundbreaking scientific discovery, an international research team has successfully sequenced the first whole ancient ...

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

An ancient Egyptian city has been uncovered by a team of British and Egyptian archaeologists. Archaeologists from the University of Manchester worked alongside a team from the University of Sadat ...