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 ...

A new DNA analysis of a 4,400-year-old skeleton from ancient Egypt has found that the individual, an elite official buried ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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

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