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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 ...

Drenched and determined, these detectorists struck historical gold in ancient pastureland. Watch a neighbor's sweet daily visits turn into a heartwarming friendship with dog ...

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 ...

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

Found almost 80 years ago in the cliffs bordering the Dead Sea, the Scrolls remain among the most stunning discoveries of the 20th century. Found in 11 caves near Khirbet Qumran by a young Bedouin ...

A sequence of footprints hidden deep within a long-dried paleo‑lake bed were discovered in 2021 by archaeologists, pushing back the purported arrival of early North American settlers between 23,000 ...