The Barbary lion is one example. This subspecies, also known as the North African lion, Atlas lion, and Egyptian lion, once lived across North Africa in an area known as the Maghreb, which spans ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the ...

#15 Barbary Lion - Extinct In The Wild By The 1960s From the mountains and deserts of Morocco all the way to Egypt, the Barbary lion—also known by names like the North African, Atlas, or ...

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

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

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

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

The bronze artifacts may have served as coffin handles for a burial in what is now Israel, but the true nature of the find ...