“Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt,” at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, is a powerful exhibition. But that’s not really because of Cleopatra.

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

Dating back more than 4,500 years, the skeleton belonged to a middle-aged man who may have worked as a potter and likely ...

Cleopatra was queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC. Pictured here: “Cleopatra” painted by John William Waterhouse, circa 1888. De Agostini via Getty Images ...

Hovering in the background of ancient history’s headlines is King Juba II—writer, explorer, and ruler of Mauretania, the Roman satellite kingdom in North Africa, for almost 50 years until his ...

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

Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë was the seat of power of Kush, an ancient kingdom and rival to Egypt. Kushite culture blended Egyptian customs into its own ...