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 ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and ...

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 ...

Using modern DNA analysis, researchers found that the ... Though the Octagon tomb could still be connected to a significant Egyptian royal, the researchers write, it is likely to have been erected ...

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

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 ...