Ancient sheep buried in an elite grave in Egypt show the oldest evidence of humans deliberately deforming the horns of livestock. Exactly why it was done remains a mystery. In the 5,700-year-old ...

"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 ...

The remains of six male sheep with altered horns were found at the ancient Egyptian burial complex of Hierakonpolis, dating ...

The life of ancient Greek sage, philosopher and prophet Epimenides of Crete straddles history and myth, but some of his works ...

Sheep are among the animals that humans domesticated first, in the Middle East during the dawn of agriculture. A new genetic study of hundreds of ancient sheep remains, which date across 12 ...