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

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

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

Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a ...

A new study suggests that a 9,000-year-old society in Catalhoyuk, a proto-city in southern Anatolia, may have established a ...

A Russian strike on a cathedral sacred to Ukrainian identity results in quick restoration – and a message that “evil ... will ...

Vladimir Putin revives imperial rhetoric and lays claim to historic ‘Novorossiya' - but suffers a setback as Moscow loses ...

Most ancient history museums covering ancient Greece will have a marble ... including from what is now the territory of Bulgaria, Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. Then, when the Ottoman Empire took over ...

The ancient Greeks shared the Classical world with many fascinating neighboring cultures who rarely receive much mainstream attention.