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

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

A new study sequencing the first complete ancient Egyptian genome reveals the 4,500-year-old man had significant ancestry ...

Ancient Egypt’s Old Kingdom is best known for the enormous pyramids built by its kings and strung in a line through the low desert west of Memphis from Abu Rawash in the north to Meidum in the ...

Everyone knows that the Egyptian pyramids are ancient — but exactly how old are they? Historians estimate that they were built between roughly 2700 and 1500 B.C.E., with construction on Giza's ...

The Egyptian Old Kingdom ended over 4,000 years ago, but amazingly we still have access to a number of primary sources dating from the era. Jaromir Malek uncovers the evidence. The historical ...

One of these days, Hollywood will make a movie about Egypt’s New Kingdom. It’s a magnificent story about redemption, power, greed, revenge, religion and decline, all set in the world’s first ...

An ancient Mayan kingdom from some 2,000 years ago was discovered buried in northern Guatemala, researchers say. Archaeologists uncovered nearly 1,000 ancient Mayan settlements in the Mirador ...

2,000-year-old lost ‘kingdom’ with ballcourts and pyramids discovered in Guatemala By Moira Ritter. December 21, 2022 1:20 PM. ... Architecture: pyramids and e-grounds.

Old Kingdom pyramids — II . Zahi Hawass, Tuesday 26 Nov 2024. Zahi Hawass continues his history of pyramids surviving from the ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom. Pyramid of Unas .