Akihiko Yamamoto recently connected with his American sister, Sharon Lovell, whom he never knew existed. For most of his life ...

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

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

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

Remains of British man identified 12 years after death thanks to new technology - Michael Hill, who died aged 75 in the ...