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

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

The first whole ancient Egyptian genome has been sequenced by researchers, taken from a man who lived 4,500 to 4,800 years ...

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

An Egyptian genome has finally been unraveled, thanks to a sample from an at least 4,500 year-old mummy dating back to the ...

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

Once known as “Pharaoh’s Daughter”, the 3000-year-old male mummy took a bizarre path to a cupboard in Glasgow.

Thanks to recent analysis, however, researchers believe they have confirmed the first known plague case outside Eurasia: a 3,290-year-old, ancient Egyptian mummy.

Egyptian mummy's 'horrifying fate' changes everything experts know about ... with some evidence of infection visible in 5,000 year old skeletons in Russia. However, the ancient Egyptian mummy, ...

The oldest confirmed case of the illness in an ancient Egyptian mummy has shown the bubonic plague was around thousands of years before the Black Death in Europe. irishmirror Load mobile navigation.

The tomb’s burial chambers, dated to 2400 BC, contain 23 human mummies and more than 30 animal mummies. Ancient Egyptians believed that the soul remained inside the body after death, so ...