Unlike the 365-day solar year most of the world uses today, the Ancient Egyptian calendar followed the lunar year, as does the Islamic calendar still widely used around the world. YouTube Watch On ...

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

But while experts now know a fair amount about ancient Egyptian life, they still understand very little about the ...

The individual lived 4,500 years ago, and his genome is offering new insights into ancient Egyptians and the lives they led.

In 1901, sponge divers off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera stumbled upon an ancient shipwreck that would soon yield one of the most extraordinary artifacts of the ancient world. Amid the ...

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

The genome of a man who lived in Egypt over 4500 years ago offers a new window on the ancient society and hints at ...