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

The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the ...

Across history, ancient civilizations crafted prototypes for many of the modern mechanisms that have become integral to ...

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the ...

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

NASA's Perseverance rover is digging deeper into Mars' geologic past as it begins grinding into rock surfaces to expose ...

Eastern Australia is one of the most fire-prone regions in the world, with bushfires responsible for the deaths of about 800 ...

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

Drenched and determined, these detectorists struck historical gold in ancient pastureland. Watch a neighbor's sweet daily ...

Rocks older than 4.03 billion years could shed light on Earth's earliest geological history, but they're incredibly rare.

The genome of a man who lived in Egypt over 4500 years ago offers a new window on the ancient society and hints at connections with Mesopotamia ...