Mesopotamia some 6000 years ago, one of the cradle of civilizations and the birthplace of the first writing system. In the ...

The sequencing of a genome extracted from the remains of an individual from ancient Egypt has revealed that 77.6% of their ...

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

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

Are you as assured as Ashurbanipal about your knowledge of Mesopotamia, or as dim as Nimrud?

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...