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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In ancient Egyptian funerary rituals, canopic jars were used to hold human organs that were removed during the mummification process, including the lungs, intestines, liver, and stomach. These vessels ...

The mummy contained traces of Yersinia pestis DNA in both the bone tissue and intestines, indicating that the ancient plague had reached advanced stages at the time of the individual's death.

Egyptian mummy's horrifying fate changes everything experts knew about disease The scientific name for the infection, Yersinia pestis, wiped out vast swathes of Europe but this new finding means ...

For decades, scientists assumed that the first modern humans to arrive in Europe, around 45,000 years ago, quickly evolved pale skin to adapt to the region’s dim sunlight. The logic seemed ...