An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and dying of cancer was actually just embalmed with a technique that mimicked these diagnoses, researchers have concluded, settling a four-year ...

Scientists are homing in on a pregnancy test for women who lived hundreds or even thousands of years ago. For the first time, researchers have detected levels of oestrogen, progesterone and ...

Scientists say they have found a way to test ancient human remains for hormones linked with pregnancy, a breakthrough that may allow archaeologists to determine whether a woman was pregnant or had ...