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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 Manchester Museum in England is inviting guests to share feedback on Asru, an ancient Egyptian woman whose body was ...
Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...
Scientists at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History have peered beneath the wrappings of ancient Egyptian mummified human remains to uncover new details about their identities and how they ...
Researchers wanted to know if today’s mummies still carry traces of the original embalming materials. And if so, could those scents help museums better preserve and explain thes ...
The individual lived 4,500 years ago, and his genome is offering new insights into ancient Egyptians and the lives they led.
Researchers sequenced ancient Egyptian DNA from a 4,500-year-old skeleton, revealing genetic links between early Egypt and ...
She was one of ancient Egypt's most successful rulers, a rare female pharaoh who preceded Cleopatra by 1,500 years, but Queen ...