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Ancient egyptians likely used opiates regularly, researchers say

Archaeologists and toxicologists are revisiting a provocative idea about life along the Nile: that ancient Egyptians may have incorporated opium into daily and ritual practice far more routinely than ...
Phys.org

Ancient Egyptian genome reveals North African roots and Fertile Crescent ancestry

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from an individual who lived around 4,500 to 4,800 ...
CNN

The first genome sequenced from ancient Egypt reveals surprising ancestry, scientists say

In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing unprecedented insight about the ancestry of a man who lived during the time when the first ...
The New York Times

Egypt’s Grand Museum Is Finally Open. Now, ‘We Need Our Stuff Back.’

The museum’s most anticipated exhibit is the full 5,500 items from King Tutankhamen’s tomb. Egyptians say it’s time to experience their most precious antiquities at home. The museum’s most anticipated ...