Archaeologists have unveiled a 3,500-year-old city in Peru, which functioned as a trading hub linking Pacific coast cultures ...

The sequencing of a genome extracted from the remains of an individual from ancient Egypt has revealed that 77.6% of their ...

This photo provided by researchers shows rock-cut tombs in Nuwayrat, Egypt where a pottery vessel in which the remains of a ...

Archaeologists on Thursday unveiled a 3,500-year-old city in Peru that likely served as a trading hub linking Pacific coast ...

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

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

Are you as assured as Ashurbanipal about your knowledge of Mesopotamia, or as dim as Nimrud?

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

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