Tracking the footsteps provides modern scientists a view into ancient life.

(CNN) — Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable landscape of endless sand dunes and barren rock ... Now, with the help of ancient DNA from mummified remains, geneticists are figuring out who ...

She picked up a stone which turned out to be an ancient scarab amulet dating back 3,800 years. “Out of the 7,000 stones around her, she picked up one stone. Then she brushed off the sand ...