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Penn engineering researchers modified a fungus called Aspergillus flavus, which may have caused lung disease and illness in ...

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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 new study argues that the pharaoh’s statues weren’t destroyed out of revenge, but were ‘ritually deactivated’ because of ...

Earlier archeological evidence has shown trade links between Egypt and Mesopotamia, as well as similarities in pottery-making ...

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

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

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