Once the pride of North Africa, the Barbary lion was thought to be extinct in the wild – but could it still survive today? In ...

A new study argues that the pharaoh’s statues weren’t destroyed out of revenge, but were ‘ritually deactivated’ because of ...

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

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

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

Similar examples of ancient lion artifacts appear to have been used as door knockers. But the newly discovered discs may have ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

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

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 ...

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

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...