Apr. 2, 2025 — An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

A new study presents a different theory, which challenges existing ideas about early class structures Cool Finds The 3-year-old picked up an ancient Canaanite scarab that dates back to the Middle ...

The 25th Dynasty, introduced their own pyramids, showcasing their cultural and political connection to ancient Egypt. The construction of Nubian pyramids commenced at El Kurru in 751 BC, initially ...

The mummy of a first-century-B.C. individual found in Egypt was not pregnant and did not have cancer, according to a new CT study.

“DNA extracted from two pastoralist women who were buried at the rock shelter around 7,000 years ago reveals that most of their ancestry can be traced to a previously unknown ancient North ...

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Archaeologists uncover an ancient burial site with Egyptian, Greek, and Roman graves at Tell Ruwad Iskandar, Egypt. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient ...

The first genomic study of ancient people from the eastern Maghreb region — present-day Tunisia and northeastern Algeria — shows that Stone Age populations who lived there more than 8,000 ...

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