The Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom (2686–2125 B.C.) produced many lasting artefacts—but little DNA has survived. Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built ...

A facial reconstruction was made using a 3D scan of the Egyptian man's skull. - Caroline Wilkinson, Liverpool John Moores University In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire ...

Researchers have sequenced the first whole ancient Egyptian genome from an individual who lived 4,500 to 4,800 years ago – the oldest DNA sample from Egypt to date. 80% of his ancestry was related to ...

What was it like to live in ancient Egypt during an era of sweeping change? Although we can't put ourselves in the shoes of ancient Egyptians, we at least know how one of them may have lived now that ...

Long before modern billionaires threw lavish parties at sea on their superyachts, the wealthy elite of ancient Egypt ...

An Egyptian magician-prince who delves into the crumbling sepulchers of his ancestors in search of forgotten lore: It sounds like the pitch for an early 20th-century pulp adventure novel. But Prince ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers sequenced ...

In an archaeological first, scientists have scraped the organic residue within a 2,000-year-old head-shaped drinking vessel, called a Bes mug, to identify its past contents. Bottoms up for Bes.

In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing unprecedented insight about the ancestry of a man who lived during the time when the first ...

Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built have yielded the first full human genome sequence from ancient Egypt. The remains are 4,800 to 4,500 years old ...