In a Nutshell The first complete ancient Egyptian genome shows this 4,800-year-old individual had mostly North African ...

Dating back more than 4,500 years, the skeleton belonged to a middle-aged man who may have worked as a potter and likely ...

Researchers sequenced ancient Egyptian DNA from a 4,500-year-old skeleton, revealing genetic links between early Egypt and ...

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

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Scientists decoded the DNA of an ancient Egyptian man, uncovering surprising links to both North Africa and Mesopotamia in a ...

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

This discovery supports long-suspected ties between Egypt and Mesopotamia, once inferred only from trade goods and shared ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

Newborn babies in England will have their DNA mapped to predict and treat serious diseases, under new plans set out by the government. In comments first reported in the Daily Telegraph, Health ...