Buried in the desert for roughly 4,500 years, the skeleton of a single Egyptian man has yielded a complete genome that ...

A 4,500-year-old burial in Middle Egypt has reshaped what scientists know about ancient Egyptian origins. Inside a sealed limestone tomb near Beni Hasan, researchers uncovered the remains of a man ...

A 4,600-year-old skeleton discovered in a sealed tomb in Nuwayrat, Egypt, has revealed the first genetic evidence of ancient migration between Egypt and Mesopotamia. Scientists sequenced the man's ...

Until now, the earliest Egyptians to have even part of their DNA sequenced were three people who lived between 787 and 544 b.c. A team including geneticist Adeline Morez Jacobs of Liverpool John ...

Evolutionary biologists have long believed that the human-biting mosquito, Culex pipiens form molestus, evolved from the bird-biting form, Culex pipiens form pipiens, in subways and cellars in ...