Two 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the Green Sahara.

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In the shadow of Vesuvius, Pompeii has long offered an unparalleled window into ancient Roman life—but the view has been skewed. For centuries, women’s roles in the city have been overlooked or ...

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Recent archaeological findings in the Sahara Desert have unveiled a tantalizing glimpse into a long-lost lineage of ancient ...

Today the most extreme forms of devotion to God in Christianity involve tithing, abstaining from meat on Fridays and during Lent, taking religious orders and devoting oneself to a life of celibacy, ...

Archaeologists also discovered the burial of a four-year-old child in close proximity to the woman. The child was crowned with a bronze diadem adorned with small rosettes and dates to the same time ...

When you think of ancient history, what comes to mind? Kings, battles, empires... men writing most of the rules, right? But pause for a second. Look a little closer. Because woven into the grand ...

For the first time, the complete genome of a person from ancient Egypt has been sequenced. The DNA was collected from the remains of an older man, possibly a potter, who lived over 4500 years ago. The ...