New evidence reveals that the Pyramids in Egypt were built by paid workers, not slaves, reshaping views on ancient Egyptian ...

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

The first full ancient Egyptian genome reveals ancestry from both North Africa and Mesopotamia. The individual likely worked ...

A new study sequencing the first complete ancient Egyptian genome reveals the 4,500-year-old man had significant ancestry ...

New archaeological findings from a study led by renowned Egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass is challenging the long-standing belief that slaves built the pyramids in Egypt. Inscriptions discovered above ...

CAIRO, June 8 (Xinhua) -- The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced on Sunday a number of pharaonic discoveries in Upper Egypt's Luxor Governorate, some of which date back to the ...

For the very first time, scientists have sequenced DNA from the entire genome of an individual who lived in ancient Egypt up ...

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

DNA of an ancient Egyptian man reveals Mesopotamian ancestry, and genetic study provides insight into cultural exchanges in ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have claimed to have discovered a second hidden city sat deep beneath Egypt’s famous pyramids of Giza. The potentially seismic revelation could even help to prove the existence… ...

This major milestone comes four decades after initial efforts by Nobel laureate Svante Pääbo to recover ancient Egyptian DNA ...

Archaeologists are stunned after discovering what they believe could be an ancient city under the pyramids of Giza. A vast, prehistoric city buried beneath the Pyramids of Giza. It’s an extraordinary ...