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

New research in northwest Saudi Arabia has identified the existence of a network of previously unknown walled oases.

Ancient Egypt is a period of time that elicits great fascination and, even today, secrets from that era are continuing to be uncovered. For the first time, scientists have now been able to sequence ...

Introduction Europeans did not think we would find out about our black human species that inhabited Europe before the arrival of the Caucasians from the Caucasus Mountains in Central Asia .

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

An ancient poem written in the dying days of Mesopotamia has been rediscovered after more than 2,000 years. Researchers at ...

Is the legend of Atlantis a distorted memory of the historical wars between the Egyptians and the Sea Peoples in the Bronze Age?