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, ...

Joschka Fischer thinks that Israel's tactical successes over the past year and a half have resolved none of the strategic ...

Are you as assured as Ashurbanipal about your knowledge of Mesopotamia, or as dim as Nimrud?

It's widely considered one of the cradles of civilisation. But a new study has revealed that people living in ancient Egypt ...

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 ...

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

The pottery wheel from Mesopotamia first appeared in Egypt at about the time the man lived, a period when the earliest ...