The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the ...

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

Livelihood diversity wasn't just a feature of ancient African societies; it was key to survival. New research covering ...

Traces of ancient empires that stretched across Africa remain in the DNA of people living on the continent, ... (2023, March 30). Ancient African empires' impact on migration revealed by genetics.

Marcus Brown, a consultant in the energy field, takes the ancient African wisdom words from Cameroon/Uganda to mean something Black people in 2025 should take to heart.

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the full genome of a 4,800-year-old Egyptian man. The DNA reveals North African ...

Ancient DNA analysis was always one of the most exciting prospects. ... Contradicting what we had expected, the ancestry of the people we analyzed was not largely African or Asian.

The genetic analysis of the ancient DNA revealed a mixture of both African and Asian populations. About 80 to 90 percent of Asian DNA could be linked to Persia. The remaining 10 percent came from ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny ...

Not only have rock art, stone tools and ceramic fragments been found there, but also the remains of 46 people. That's rare: most very old burials found in South Africa (from the last 40,000 years ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny ...