From the pyramids of Egypt to the jungle-choked ruins of Angkor Wat, from the magical desert capital of the Nabateans in ...

4,500-year-old DNA offers new clues about ancient human societies.

Ancient mathematical texts that played a key role in constructing the Roman empire will be transformed for the 21st century ...

Nestled on the coast of the island of Euboea (Evia), the ancient city of Eretria was one of the most influential centers in ...

As China's first representative archaeological culture to enter the phase of ancient states, Hongshan is recognized as a ...

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

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 .

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

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 ...

Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the teeth of a remarkably well-preserved skeleton found in a sealed funeral pot in ...

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...