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 ...

Ancient DNA has revealed links between the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the teeth of a well-preserved skeleton found in a sealed funeral pot in an ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

We know surprisingly little about the lives of children in ancient Egypt.

As a result, much of the work in Egyptology on representations of childhood in ancient Egypt is dominated by evidence for the lives of boys and young adult men.

"In Egypt, it was often the eldest son versus all the other children, not so much sons versus daughters. This gave less opportunity for anti-woman sentiment to develop.

How did they build the pyramids? Why were they so obsessed with cats? Did they mummify everyone? Egyptologist Chris Naunton answers Google's most searched questions about Ancient Egypt. 00:00 ...

Mathematics in ancient Egypt Calculation principles found in a papyrus scroll, and an author shares his love of lichens in this week’s pick from the Nature archive.