Learn about the first whole genome from Ancient Egypt, which has shed light on the life and ancestry of a potter who lived ...

A new wave of deadly violence has shaken Syria, putting the fragile security situation in the country under the spotlight as ...

Syrian government officials and leaders in the Druze religious minority announced a renewed ceasefire Wednesday after days of ...

Sealed inside a rocky tomb for over four millennia, an Egyptian skeleton has just revealed a hidden chapter of ancient ...

Gujarat may be Krishna's Dwarka, matching ancient texts. Stone structures, artifacts fuel myth-history debate.

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

Ancient DNA has revealed links between the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the teeth of a well-preserved skeleton found in a sealed funeral pot in an ...

In a groundbreaking scientific discovery, an international research team has successfully sequenced the first whole ancient Egyptian genome from an individual who lived 4,500 to 4,800 years ago – the ...

The Egyptian archaeological mission working at Dra’ Abu El-Naga on Luxor’s west bank has uncovered three tombs dating back to Egypt’s New Kingdom era, marking a significant discovery during the ...

Egypt: Archaeologists discover three ancient tombs dating back more than 3,500 years The new discoveries date back to the New Kingdom period (1550 BC), according to officials.