A DNA bone test on a man who lived 4,500 years ago in the Nile Valley has shed new light on the rise of the Ancient Egyptian ...

The Hamads, like many farmers, prefer a traditional wheat variety called "72", which produces a fine white flour that is not milled with bran, a defining feature of Egypt’s baladi bread.

Researchers have sequenced the first whole ancient Egyptian genome from an individual who lived 4,500 to 4,800 years ago — ...