Archaeologists uncovered Old Kingdom tombs in Aswan’s Qubbat al-Hawa, Egypt, shedding light on a key transitional period in ...

WASHINGTON -- Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

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 ...

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

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...

The pyramid complex became falsely standardised during the ancient Egyptian Fifth Dynasty, and the patterns set by the first king, Userkaf, held for the remainder of the Old Kingdom. The pyramids ...

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered three ancient rock-cut tombs at the Qubbat al-Hawa necropolis near Aswan, dating back to the Old Kingdom period of Egypt (2686–2181 BCE). Egypt's Ministry of ...

Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country and alongside Mesopotamia was a part of the Fertile Crescent which is ...

A new study argues that the pharaoh’s statues weren’t destroyed out of revenge, but were ‘ritually deactivated’ because of ...