A 4,500-year-old burial in Middle Egypt has reshaped what scientists know about ancient Egyptian origins. Inside a sealed ...
Perhaps also surprising, the remains of cats and artistic depictions of them have been observed in various archaeological ...
Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...
The individual lived 4,500 years ago, and his genome is offering new insights into ancient Egyptians and the lives they led. Reading time 2 minutes Scientists have, for the first time, sequenced the ...
In recent years, Egyptologists’ understanding of the period of stability and prosperity that emerged at the end of the 4th millennium B.C.E. known as the Old Kingdom has begun to change. Excavations ...
Your cat is not just acting royal, it actually is. New DNA proof shows today's cats are direct descendants of Pharaonic Egypt ...
The giant alabaster statues, known as the Colossi of Memnon, represent Amenhotep III, who ruled ancient Egypt about 3,400 ...
A newly identified crocodile relative from Egypt pushes back the origins of the marine-hunting dyrosaurids by millions of years. The fossil, Wadisuchus kassabi, shows a mix of primitive and advanced ...