Leonardo da Vinci sketched several machines that did not even exist during the 15th century. One of them is a helicopter ...

The tomb of Teti Neb Fu, an ancient Egyptian physician who lived around 4,000 years ago during the sixth dynasty, was discovered in the old state of Saqqara ...

Teti Neb Fu is a fascinating historic character who is believed to have likely been an expert in treating scorpion or snake bites - and now a fascinating tomb has been ...

UH archaeologists discover ancient tomb days before their 50th wedding anniversary These University of Houston archeologists have already found their missing piece ...

How do you carve, transport, and erect a single block statue weighing over 1,000 tons—out of composite quartzite, flint, or granite—using only primitive tools? In this video, we explore the ...

Scientists have, for the first time, sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian who lived approximately 4,500 to 4,800 years ago.

For the first time, the complete genome of a person from ancient Egypt has been sequenced. The DNA was collected from the remains of an older man, possibly a potter, who lived over 4500 years ago ...

The discovery We extracted DNA from an ancient Egyptian man whose remains were excavated from a rock-cut tomb at Nuwayrat in Middle Egypt in the early twentieth century by archaeologist John Garstang.

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA sequencing reveals how these two populations also intermingled.

When a section of road in eastern Cyprus collapsed, officials looked into the gaping hole and were surprised to find a long-forgotten ancient tomb. Excavations revealed the roughly 2,000-year-old ...