The first full ancient Egyptian genome reveals ancestry from both North Africa and Mesopotamia. The individual likely worked ...

A few things on this planet are old enough to make history books look recent, and that includes some living trees that have ...

Researchers in the UK have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from an individual who lived more than ...

Scientists thought this crater in Australia was the world’s oldest – but an independent analysis shows they might be off by ...

Peñico was established in 1800 B.C., just after the 5,000-year-old Caral civilization fell due to climate change.

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants ...

A traveling workshop of TAU's Orit Guardians program discovered two 15th-century Orit books—the oldest found to date in the ...

An ancient Peruvian city that was a thriving hub of trade more than 3,000 years ago has been unveiled by archaeologists.

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

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the ...