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

It's widely considered one of the cradles of civilisation. But a new study has revealed that people living in ancient Egypt ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Scientists have decoded the DNA of an ancient Egyptian man. His remains, found in a clay pot, suggest cultural links between ...

A man who lived nearly 4,800 years ago has been brought alive after his DNA was sequenced for the first time. The ...

Scientists have sequenced the oldest known DNA from ancient Egypt. It belonged to a potter who lived 4,500 years ago. This rare genetic snapshot offers new insights into the diverse ancestry of early ...

Introduction Europeans did not think we would find out about our black human species that inhabited Europe before the arrival of the Caucasians from the Caucasus Mountains in Central Asia .