Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country and alongside Mesopotamia was a part of the Fertile Crescent which is ...

DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing ...

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

Stepping up to the table, the tourist squinted to make out what lay underneath the dusty glass top. “ANCIENT EGYPTIAN GAME, ...

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

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

Researchers have sequenced the genome of an ancient Egyptian who was buried in a pot nearly 5,000 years ago, about the time ...

Shattered depictions of Hatshepsut have long thought to be products of her successor’s violent hatred towards her, but a new ...

Nearby, archaeologists found a unique statue of 12 figures, identified as another ancient Egyptian pharaoh, Djoser, with his wife and 10 daughters.

King Userkaf founded an ancient Egyptian dynasty that ruled from about 2430 B.C. to 2300 B.C., ... One of the tomb chambers with an offering table and statue of King Djoser’s family. ...

Although based on a single genome, the findings offer unique insight into the genetic history of ancient Egyptians - a difficult task considering that Egypt's hot climate is not conducive to DNA ...