A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...

By 1600 b.c., less than one in 20 bones found at sites in the Levant typically come from pigs, and most of those appear to be ...

During the Early Bronze Age, the Southern Levant's inability to support mass sheep herding left the region lagging behind ...

Animal bones found nearby indicate a varied ... ideas of a sharp divide between the haves and the have-nots in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting a much larger middle class than previously thought ...

Throughout history, clothing has not only served as a basic necessity but has also been a powerful form of expression, a ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

The site is located in southeastern Turkey, a place that was once part of Upper Mesopotamia ... The pillars contain carvings of animals such as foxes, boars, gazelles, snakes and vultures.

Sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years. As well as meat, their domestication led to humans ...

Valentine’s Day is nigh upon us. Soon there will be floods of flowers, chunks of chocolate, crowds of cards and maybe even ...

Ancient DNA analysis reveals that sheep were domesticated over 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. By 8,000 years ago, ...

Along with a similar signal in goats, this is the earliest evidence for human molding of another animal's biology and ... out from the early cities of Mesopotamia, we see sheep genomes moving ...