Archaeologists on Thursday unveiled a 3,500-year-old city in Peru that likely served as a trading hub linking Pacific coast cultures with those in the Andes and Amazon, flourishing around the same ...

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

Long overshadowed by its Egyptian neighbors, the Kingdom of Kush was a powerful and advanced African civilization that ruled ...

Are you as assured as Ashurbanipal about your knowledge of Mesopotamia, or as dim as Nimrud?

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 ...

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

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