This photo provided by researchers shows rock-cut tombs in Nuwayrat, Egypt where a pottery vessel in which the remains of a ...

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4,500-year-old DNA offers new clues about ancient human societies.

Scientists decoded the DNA of an ancient Egyptian man, uncovering surprising links to both North Africa and Mesopotamia in a ...

Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country and alongside Mesopotamia was a part of the Fertile Crescent which is ...

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

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For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

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