The macabre world of ancient Egyptian ritual sacrifice may have contributed to the domestication of cats, new research ...

Cats became human companions for the first time likely following mass cult ritual sacrifices of the furry felines in ancient Egypt, a pair of new studies suggest.Ancient Egypt is well known to have ...

Carlin and his team noted that most individuals buried in the passage tombs were not close relatives, which disproves the ...

While the Paleolithic period involved a nomadic lifestyle and the invention of stone tools, the Neolithic period was ushered ...

Scholars have long debated whether human activity or climatic factors prompted the Neolithic Revolution, the transition from ...

Centuries of antiquarians and archaeologists thought they were burial places for the elite of Neolithic Irish society. Genetic analysis of human remains within several of the tombs initially ...

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Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Evidence indicates that climate-driven wildfires and subsequent soil erosion around 8,200 years ago led to vegetation collapse in the southern Levant. This ...

Centuries of antiquarians and archaeologists thought they were burial places for the elite of Neolithic Irish society. Genetic analysis of human remains within several of the tombs initially ...