A 12th-century translation error kicked off a 700-year trade in mummies, depopulating the tombs of Egypt to populate European ...

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

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

Dating back more than 4,500 years, the skeleton belonged to a middle-aged man who may have worked as a potter and likely ...

But while experts now know a fair amount about ancient Egyptian life, they still understand very little about the ...

The first full ancient Egyptian genome reveals ancestry from both North Africa and Mesopotamia. The individual likely worked ...

Egyptian artifacts from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s collection during a special program at 1:30 p.m. July 29, at Mentor ...

Children can dig for fossils and learn hieroglyphics during a range of activities at a country estate in Lincolnshire. Belton ...

The first complete DNA study of an Ancient Egyptian has revealed he was probably a celebrated potter who was given an oddly ...

Once known as “Pharaoh’s Daughter”, the 3000-year-old male mummy took a bizarre path to a cupboard in Glasgow.

A DNA bone test on a man who lived 4,500 years ago in the Nile Valley has shed new light on the rise of the Ancient Egyptian ...