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 ...

The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the ...

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

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

Nicknamed the "Mysterious Lady," the first-century-B.C. mummy was found in the Egyptian city of Luxor (ancient Thebes) but was brought to the University of Warsaw in Poland in 1826.

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.

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

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.

DAMIETTA, Egypt (CNN Newsource/WKRC) - An ongoing excavation in Egypt has uncovered dozens of tombs filled with bodies and relics that date back over 2,500 years. The necropolis (an ancient ...