Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were ...

Long before cats became internet icons or household companions, they earned their place by solving a very practical problem.

Perhaps also surprising, the remains of cats and artistic depictions of them have been observed in various archaeological ...

The recent archaeological discovery also deepens our understanding of trade networks between India and the Roman Empire.

Ancient DNA is finally putting hard numbers on a mystery that has trailed humanity for millennia: when our most familiar ...

While archaeologists have previously documented a few similar examples of ancient Roman pet monkeys elsewhere, they genetically traced back to the Barbary macaques of Africa. “The Berenike burials of ...

The enduring enigma surrounding the precise origins of cat domestication has finally begun to yield its secrets, thanks to a groundbreaking new genome study. Despite their global ubiquity as household ...

(CNN) — The origins of domestic cats — centuries before they conquered the world’s sofas and internet memes — have long been murky. Now, ancient DNA is helping to fill in the blanks, and the findings ...

We know perfectly well how humans were able to domesticate dogs. From wolves more terrifying than those in fairy tales to ...