Green art conservation methods developed by EU researchers are setting new standards and proving useful far beyond museums, ...

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

Discover the ancient ingredient that completely outperforms expensive serums and why modern skincare can't compete with this ...

Dubai: In a major scientific milestone, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian individual, ...

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

Now, thanks to ancient DNA and a sculptor’s art, we can meet her again.

Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a ...

Researchers surveyed the DNA of more than 200 cats spanning the last 9,000 years, including ancient Romanian cat remains, Egyptian cat mummies, and modern African wildcat specimens.

A history of dentistry from the most ancient times until the end of the eighteenth century by Guerini, Vincenzo. [from old catalog]; National dental association. [from old catalog] Publication date ...

The study focuses on a cosmetic material discovered in a stone vessel in tomb A44 at Hasanlu, a site in northwest Iran ...

At the Iraqi Site of Assur, Ancient History Stands at Risk of Destruction In its time, the Assyrian capital faced waves of invasions and abandonment. Now a small team of archaeologists are ...

But for ancient doctors, that spoilage could be much more than an unpleasant but inconsequential disappointment. It was seen as actively harmful. “ [Galen] says, ‘Look, it’s also decomposing in your ...