A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in Egypt has revealed fresh evidence about the workforce behind the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the world’s most iconic ancient ...

A man who lived nearly 4,800 years ago has been brought alive after his DNA was sequenced for the first time. The breakthrough comes 40 years after Nobel Prize winner Svante Pääbo for the first time ...

A skeleton found in a 4,500-year-old ceramic pot has rewritten the history of Ancient Egypt. A DNA test on the man’s bones has upended how historians could view the rise of Ancient Egyptian ...

Ethiopia says its mega-dam on the River Nile is now complete, following years of tensions with Egypt and Sudan over its construction that many feared would lead to war in Africa.

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 ...

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 sequenced whole genomes from ...

Buried in a Pot, Preserved by Time: Ancient Egyptian Skeleton Yields First Full Genome DNA from a 4,500-year-old skeleton reveals ancestry links between North Africa and the Fertile Crescent.

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 ...