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

The catastrophe proves that today’s most advanced civilizations respond to fear the same way people did during the Bronze Age ...

The first recorded evidence of marriage ceremonies uniting one woman and one man dates from about 2350 B.C., in Mesopotamia.

Scientists decoded the 4,500-year-old genome of an Egyptian buried like royalty but built like a laborer—rewriting ancient ...