There’s something electric about walking down a street where every stone beneath your feet has witnessed empires rise and ...

The team analyzed DNA from 225 ancient cat specimens collected across Europe, North Africa, and Anatolia. These were were bones and teeth spanning more than 10,000 years of human history. From these ...

Some common foods that we have in our pantries can be traced back to ancient times. Take a look at the deep history of our ...

Long drought cycles reshaped settlement choices in the Indus region. These climate stresses likely contributed to its slow ...

A groundbreaking study has overturned long-held beliefs about the domestication of cats. New DNA evidence shows that domestic ...

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

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 ...

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

New genomic evidence traces domestic cats back to North Africa — and shows they only arrived in Europe around 2,000 years ago ...

In this article, we will explore the fascinating journey of cat domestication, uncovering the timeline, geographical origins, and the unique relationship cats have with humans today. For a long time, ...

However, recent findings indicate that domesticated cats arrived much later, around 2,000 years ago, coinciding with the expansion of the Roman Empire. The new research, led by Claudio Ottoni and ...

As Africa now stands on the threshold of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it must reclaim that ancient mathematical genius — ...