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

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

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

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A landmark genomic study raises the possibility that many more people could find links to distant ancestors through genetic analysis. Starting in the 1770s, hundreds of enslaved and free African ...

Traces of ancient empires that stretched across Africa remain in the DNA of people living on the continent, reveals a new genetics study led by UCL researchers. Published in Science Advances, the ...

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

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 ...