A new study sequencing the first complete ancient Egyptian genome reveals the 4,500-year-old man had significant ancestry ...

Scientists have decoded the DNA of an ancient Egyptian man. His remains, found in a clay pot, suggest cultural links between ...

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 ...

It's widely considered one of the cradles of civilisation. But a new study has revealed that people living in ancient Egypt ...

Earlier archeological evidence has shown trade links between Egypt and Mesopotamia, as well as similarities in pottery-making ...

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

The genome of a man who lived in Egypt over 4500 years ago offers a new window on the ancient society and hints at ...

A new theory suggests the wheel may have been invented not in Mesopotamia, but by copper miners in what is now Hungary nearly ...

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 ...

Researchers are taking inspiration from the Romans to make a building material that's stronger than concrete. After studying ancient Roman concrete and why it doesn't degrade as easily as modern ...