Parts of Spain, Portugal and other countries on the Med are becoming uncomfortably hot during the peak summer holiday season.

With the world feeling more volatile than ever, especially after the most recent turmoil in the Middle East, itchy-footed ...

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

WASHINGTON -- Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to ...

Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country and alongside Mesopotamia was a part of the Fertile Crescent which is ...

A new study argues that the pharaoh’s statues weren’t destroyed out of revenge, but were ‘ritually deactivated’ because of ...

A bear enjoys iced fruit at Rome's zoo, Wednesday, July 2, 2025, as temperatures soar to around 40 degrees Celsius.

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

Stepping up to the table, the tourist squinted to make out what lay underneath the dusty glass top. “ANCIENT EGYPTIAN GAME, ...

The ancient Greek physician and botanist Dioscorides is considered by many to be the father of pharmacology for authoring De ...

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