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Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the teeth of a remarkably well-preserved skeleton found in a sealed funeral pot in ...
First-of-its-Kind Genome Sequence Reveals More About the Mysterious Identity of Ancient Egyptians The first-of-its-kind ...
Researchers sequenced ancient Egyptian DNA from a 4,500-year-old skeleton, revealing genetic links between early Egypt and ...
Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...
Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built have yielded the first full human ...
Throughout history, great civilisations have risen, flourished and then disappeared, leaving behind ruins, legends and a host ...
Archaeologists in Egypt just unearthed 2,600-year-old clay vessels — filled with ancient cheese. The discovery was made at ...
Elephantine, a town at Egypt's southern frontier near modern-day Aswan, provides a unique window into the urban life of some ...
Assessment of process variability and color in synthesized and ancient Egyptian blue pigments. npj Heritage Science, 2025; 13 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s40494-025-01699-7 ...
The land south of Egypt, beyond the first cataract of the Nile, was known to the ancient world by many names: Ta-Seti, or Land of the Bow, so named because the inhabitants were expert archers; Ta ...
In the second book of Moses (Exodus 1:8), it is stated: “Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.” This could refer to a Pharaoh after the expulsion of the Hyksos, who ...
Like her father before her, Cleopatra sought absolute power in Egypt, and soon set about dropping her brother’s name from official documents. But, with Egypt facing economic failures, famine and ...