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

In the third in his special series of articles exploring the enduring legacy of Tutankhamun, Zahi Hawass searches for the boy king’s relatives among mummies thought to belong to the royal family ...

In a historic breakthrough, scientists have fully sequenced the DNA of a 4,800-year-old Egyptian man—unlocking powerful insights into ancient ancestry, migration, and daily life in early dynastic ...

In a groundbreaking scientific discovery, an international research team has successfully sequenced the first whole ancient ...

383 corpses were found embalmed and abandoned at a private crematorium in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico as families scramble to ...

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