Archaeologists on Thursday unveiled a 3,500-year-old city in Peru that likely served as a trading hub linking Pacific coast cultures with those in the Andes and Amazon, flourishing around the same ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Stepping up to the table, the tourist squinted to make out what lay underneath the dusty glass top. “ANCIENT EGYPTIAN GAME, ...

Around the globe, there are ancient sites shrouded in mystery,places where history, science, and myth intersect in baffling ...

WASHINGTON -- Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to ...

DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing ...

An ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an early alphabet spread its culture far and wide—but not its DNA, finds a 23 April Nature study of hundreds of ancient human genomes.

Amr Al-Azm, a professor of Middle Eastern history and anthropology at Shawnee State University in Ohio and a former antiquities official in Syria, said the country’s new authorities lacked the ...

The amber items would have come direct from Denmark, but at least some of the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean trade goods are likely to have been shipped to Britain via Sardinian trading hubs and ...