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 ...

Researchers have sequenced the genome of a man from ancient Egypt, revealing a genetic link to Mesopotamia. This breakthrough ...

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 ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

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 .