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It has revealed how Ancient Egypt became a great civilisation.

Scientists decoded the DNA of an ancient Egyptian man, uncovering surprising links to both North Africa and Mesopotamia in a ...

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

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

This discovery supports long-suspected ties between Egypt and Mesopotamia, once inferred only from trade goods and shared ...

Mitochondria are the body's "energy factories," and their proper function is essential for life. Inside mitochondria, a set ...

Scientists have created a near-copy of the long-extinct dire wolf. Using advanced CRISPR gene editing tech, it now looks ...

WASHINGTON -- Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

More than 4,500 years ago, at the dawn of Egypt’s pyramid age, a man was laid to rest in a ceramic pot. He was then sealed ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...