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A 12th-century translation error kicked off a 700-year trade in mummies, depopulating the tombs of Egypt to populate European ...
We explore new ways to tackle the problem of microplastic pollution in our oceans, before meeting an extraordinary man and ...
Dating back more than 4,500 years, the skeleton belonged to a middle-aged man who may have worked as a potter and likely ...
The depth of the writer’s commitment is tested when he meets with a Southern Californian tattooist proficient in ancient ...
Researchers in Poland have made quite the unique discovery, they have found the remains of the first embalmed pregnant ...
Researchers sequenced ancient Egyptian DNA from a 4,500-year-old skeleton, revealing genetic links between early Egypt and ...
Once known as “Pharaoh’s Daughter”, the 3000-year-old male mummy took a bizarre path to a cupboard in Glasgow.
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 when the first ...
4,500-year-old DNA offers new clues about ancient human societies.
This major milestone comes four decades after initial efforts by Nobel laureate Svante Pääbo to recover ancient Egyptian DNA ...
Brendan Fraser dished on why Tom Cruise's The Mummy reboot was a box office flop in comparison to his fan-favourite ...
For the first time, scientists have sequenced the full genome of a 4,800-year-old Egyptian man. The DNA reveals North African ...