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 ...

But while experts now know a fair amount about ancient Egyptian life, they still understand very little about 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 ...

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 ...

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… ...

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

The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the ...

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