Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the teeth of a remarkably well-preserved skeleton found in a sealed funeral pot in ...

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

they write in the paper. "Humans are the only example we know of, and our industrial civilization has lasted (so far) roughly 300 years (since, for example, the beginning of mass production methods).

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

This discovery supports long-suspected ties between Egypt and Mesopotamia, once inferred only from trade goods and shared ...

New research in northwest Saudi Arabia has identified the existence of a network of previously unknown walled oases.

Sophie Cunningham, the Indiana Fever guard, has been trending on social media for a couple of weeks now. It started last ...