Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the ...

The oldest known burial of a domesticated cat comes from Cyprus, where a human and a cat were buried together 9,500 years ago. Cat bones also have been found buried in 5,300-year-old refuse pits in ...

When humans still lived primarily in hunter-gatherer societies, dogs were among the first domesticated animals ... that wild wolves would have seen ancient humans as competitors for food and ...

Domesticated animals were likely kept for practical reasons ... Paintings and carvings found by archaeologists in ancient campsites and tombs also indirectly show that dogs may have been kept ...

"It was remarkable to discover a domesticated sheep from the Bronze Age that was infected with LNBA plague. This gave us an important clue for how plague could transmit within pastoralist communities ...

These findings challenge the long-held narrative about migration into and out of North Africa before and during the Neolithic.

The animals were one of the very first to be domesticated by humans, and our bond with our canine brothers stretches back thousands and thousands of years. Now, researchers studying the ancient ...

Cats took on a starring role in ancient Egypt. Scientists aren't yet sure whether the Egyptians domesticated cats separately from the Middle East lineage, or whether the cats spread from Turkey to ...