The inundation of water was more than just provision for crops and fields: the Egyptians called the event the coming of Hapy, ...

For decades, archaeologists believed that cats first started living alongside early farming communities in the Levant — covering parts of today’s Middle East and eastern Mediterranean — around 9,500 ...

New DNA studies show domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread later than believed, while ancient China lived alongside a different wild feline long before housecats arrived.

Despite the ubiquity of cats in modern homes, we still don't know many details about the timing and routes of early cat ...

From honeyed bread and beer to figs, fish, and onions, the diet of ancient Egyptians reveals a civilization powered by ...

In recent years, Egyptologists’ understanding of the period of stability and prosperity that emerged at the end of the 4th millennium B.C.E. known as the Old Kingdom has begun to change. Excavations ...

Matthew Williams, academic affiliate assistant professor of biology at Penn State (left), and Christian Huber, assistant professor of biology at Penn State, are part of a team that used sophisticated ...

Researchers focused on DNA drawn from centuries-old cat bones and compared it to the genetic signatures of today’s domestic ...