Róisín Heneghan, architect, on the Grand Egyptian Museum: “We wanted visitors to appreciate the scale of the collection”

The doors are now open at the Grand Egyptian Museum, a $1 billion attraction overlooked by the Pyramids of Giza.
Phys.org

Ancient Egyptian genome reveals North African roots and Fertile Crescent ancestry

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from an individual who lived around 4,500 to 4,800 ...
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4,000-Year-Old Handprint Found on Ancient Egyptian Tomb

Researchers from Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam Museum in the UK made an astonishing discovery. They have uncovered a 4,000-year-old handprint beneath an ancient Egyptian "soul house" during ...
CNN

Archaeologists uncover an ancient Egyptian tomb belonging to a mystery king

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. A newly uncovered ...
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4,800-Year-Old Teeth Yield First Human Genome from Ancient Egypt

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 ...
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4,000-year-old handprint found on ancient Egyptian tomb

A 4,000-year-old handprint has been discovered on a clay model used for offerings in an Ancient Egyptian tomb. Researchers from Cambridge University’s Fitzwilliam Museum, in the United Kingdom, ...