In the quiet heart of Middle Egypt, a whisper from the past just resurfaced. Archaeologists excavated a small, hollow whistle carved from a juvenile cow’s toe bone, its edges smoothed by human hands ...
The genome of a man buried at Nuwayrat in Middle Egypt about 4,500–4,800 years ago has been sequenced. Compared with published genomes of ancient individuals, most of the man’s ancestry best matches ...