We used to grind up Egyptian mummies and used them as medicine! Mummia and bitumen were long considered to be the wonder ...

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

Mitochondria are the body's "energy factories," and their proper function is essential for life. Inside mitochondria, a set ...

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

More than 4,500 years ago, at the dawn of Egypt’s pyramid age, a man was laid to rest in a ceramic pot. He was then sealed ...

Trump said Tuesday in a social media post that Qatar and Egypt have been working on the details and would deliver a final ...

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 ...

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