Long before colonial borders, the Kingdom of Kush rose in the Nile Valley conquering Egypt, ruling as pharaohs, and leaving ...

Generations of creatives have looked back to ancient Egypt in their search for art and design inspiration—here are three ...

The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the potential ancestry of those who belonged to the enduring civilization.

WASHINGTON — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

The Step Pyramid of King Djoser at Saqqara is the oldest large-scale monumental stone structure in not only Egypt, but the entire world.

In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing unprecedented insight about the ancestry of a man who lived during the time when the ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ancient Egyptian, who lived when the earliest pyramids were built ...

Ancient Egyptian genome reveals North African roots and Fertile Crescent ancestry by The Francis Crick Institute edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...

Most of an ancient Egyptian’s ancestry is best explained using North African genomes — the rest, by genomes from Mesopotamia.

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 ...