For the very first time, scientists have sequenced DNA from the entire genome of an individual who lived in ancient Egypt up ...

Built 4,500 years ago during Egypt’s Old Kingdom, the Pyramids of Giza are more than elaborate tombs — they’re also one of historians’ best sources of insight into how the ancient ...

DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have claimed to have discovered a second hidden city sat deep beneath Egypt’s famous pyramids of Giza. The potentially seismic revelation could even help to prove the ...

Boasting King Tut's treasures and countless other riches, anticipation for the Grand Egyptian Museum mounts as delays thwart ...

Researchers have sequenced the genome of an ancient Egyptian who was buried in a pot nearly 5,000 years ago, about the time ...

The Pyramid of Djoser in the Saqqara necropolis archaeological site, Egypt. The pyramid is thought to be the oldest in Egypt, with its construction dating back to around 4,700 years ago.

A new study aims to answer the centuries-old question of how the Great Pyramids of Egypt were built thousands of years ago, and its findings have provided an unexpected possible answer -- water.

An Egyptian genome has finally been unraveled, thanks to a sample from an at least 4,500 year-old mummy dating back to the ...

Water played an even bigger part in building ancient Egypt’s first pyramid, Landreau says. He contends that designers of Djoser’s pyramid deftly engineered techniques for controlling water ...

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

And while ancient Egyptians relied on a number of tools to help build the roughly 205-foot-tall structure, a new study indicates at least one previously unknown aid—a hydraulic lift system ...