Across the globe, ancient sites continue to baffle scientists and historians with their unexplained origins, advanced ...

For the very first time, scientists have sequenced DNA from the entire genome of an individual who lived in ancient Egypt up ...

Ġgantija Temples, Malta Somewhere around 3600 B.C. the ancient temples of Ġgantija were built on Gozo Island in Malta, among the oldest Neolithic structures in the world.

A groundbreaking claim from archaeologist and filmmaker Michael Donnellan has reignited the debate surrounding the ancient ...

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

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

A temple bigger than a city block was hiding in plain sight for over 1,000 years.

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

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...

This is not the first time such an effort has been made. Forty years ago, the Nobel Prize winner, Svante Pääbo, a Swedish ...