(Reuters) -DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing evidence of the ties between two great cultures of the period, ...

An "unparalleled" funerary statue of an ancient Egyptian man whose name may be Messi has been discovered at the Saqqara necropolis — and it shows him standing with what appears to be his tiny wife and ...

A facial reconstruction was made using a 3D scan of the Egyptian man's skull. - Caroline Wilkinson, Liverpool John Moores University In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire ...

A group of scientists has sequenced the genome of a man who was buried in Egypt around 4,500 years ago. The study offers rare insight into the genetic ancestry of early Egyptians and reveals links to ...

In recent years, Egyptologists’ understanding of the period of stability and prosperity that emerged at the end of the 4th millennium B.C.E. known as the Old Kingdom has begun to change. Excavations ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the pyramids were first constructed. The analysis, published in Nature on ...

Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built have yielded the first full human genome sequence from ancient Egypt. The remains are 4,800 to 4,500 years old ...

Kris Fitzgerald is an animation editor who resides in Los Angeles with his handsome husband. But he remembers what it was like when he lived a more isolated existence. Growing up gay in Utah, he ...

In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing unprecedented insight about the ancestry of a man who lived during the time when the first ...