Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

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

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers, including archaeologists, have analyzed the DNA of fish remains from Roman fish ...

Using an inexpensive electrode coated with DNA, MIT researchers have designed disposable diagnostics that could be adapted to ...

Ancient DNA has revealed links between the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the ...