Four months after its long-awaited reopening, Notre Dame Cathedral welcomed worshippers and tourists alike on Friday for an emotional Easter ceremony centered on the Crown of Thorns, ...

For decades, researchers have theorized that ancient cats in and around Cyprus —  located southeast of Greece, south of Turkey —most likely followed early farmers and then “gradually got accustomed to ...

While it is common to see cats in modern households, cats are among the most recently domesticated animals. Archaeological ...

“We demonstrate that domestic cats did not spread to Europe with Neolithic farmers, as previously thought,” they write. Instead, scientists suspect that domesticated forms of wildcats were first ...

Discover how today’s cats might trace their roots back to cult rituals in ancient Egypt.

Were cats more than just sacred animals to the ancient Egyptians? This deep dive explores bizarre hieroglyphs, mythological ...