A rock art panel near Aswan, Egypt, may depict a rare example of an elite individual from the First Dynasty, shedding light on the formation of the ancient Egyptian state.

Greek and Roman rock-cut tombs discovered near Aswan’s Aga Khan Mausoleum offer new insights into burial customs in ancient Egypt.

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

For the very first time, scientists have sequenced DNA from the entire genome of an individual who lived in ancient Egypt up ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

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

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

But while experts now know a fair amount about ancient Egyptian life, they still understand very little about the ...

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

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA sequencing reveals how these two populations also intermingled.