One of the oldest known cases of the 'Black Death' plague has been uncovered in the ancient DNA of a 3,290-year-old Egyptian mummy. Technically known as the virus Yersinia pestis, the bubonic ...

According to a statement released by the University of New Mexico, researchers led by Pere Gelabert and Victoria Oberreiter ...

Ancient DNA analysis provides new insights into our linguistic roots. Where did the Indo-European language family originate?

Scientists thought a tomb with similarities to buildings from Ptolemaic Egypt had been erected in memory of Cleopatra’s half sister, Arsinoë IV.

A large international team of researchers has discovered that the mosquitoes that live in London's underground subway evolved ...

We set up two state-of-the-art DNA-sequencing labs, one in the basement of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and the other at the Faculty of Medicine at Cairo University. The research would be led by ...

is one of the first to successfully use the typing of both mitochondrial and Y chromosomal DNA in Egyptian mummies. Dr Campbell Price, Curator of Egypt and Sudan at Manchester Museum, said: “The ...

pestis DNA in an ancient Egyptian mummy of an adult male from the collection of the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy. The individual, who was anthropogenically mummified, was radiocarbon-dated from ...

Discover the fascinating history of cat domestication and genetic analysis results, revealing how ancient Egyptians played a ...