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

Similar examples of ancient lion artifacts appear to have been used as door knockers. But the newly discovered discs may have ...

When most people contemplate the future of America’s conflict with Iran, they hunt for clues in grainy satellite photos, ...

Scientists have unveiled inscriptions which several hundred years old in the location where Jesus Christ ate with his ...

The new global war now revolves around Al-Quds (Jerusalem) and Palestine. Some observers have described it as the beginning ...

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

O my people, enter the Holy Land which Allah has assigned to you…” This verse, spoken by Moses to his people, recognises the land’s divine allocation to the Israelites. Surah Al-Isra (17:104) further ...

Earlier archeological evidence has shown trade links between Egypt and Mesopotamia, as well as similarities in pottery-making ...

With the world feeling more volatile than ever, especially after the most recent turmoil in the Middle East, itchy-footed ...

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

French pop historian Vincent Lemire's illustrated tome makes some loaded choices in depicting the Jewish parts of history.