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It's widely considered one of the cradles of civilisation. But a new study has revealed that people living in ancient Egypt ...

A map showing the development of somatic cell mutations in the human body has been released. A research team led by Professor ...

French philosopher Gilles Deleuze once argued art emerges from chaos. Now, his critique is finding new relevance in an ...

DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing ...

The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

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

But while experts now know a fair amount about ancient Egyptian life, they still understand very little about the ...

The genome of a man who lived in Egypt over 4500 years ago offers a new window on the ancient society and hints at connections with Mesopotamia ...

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...

Nora Naranjo Morse’s colorful sculptures watch over the events and characters in her daughter Eliza’s paintings from their ...