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 dig ...

Archaeologists have uncovered strangely deformed sheep skulls at an ancient Egyptian burial site, representing the oldest known example of humans modifying livestock horns. Researchers also found the ...

Four thousand years ago, a sheep in the Eurasian Steppe carried a lethal bacterium that once swept across continents. The discovery of its preserved DNA has given scientists the first direct evidence ...

A new study has decoded a mysterious plague that swept across Eurasia thousands of years ago. An ancient strain of plague (Yersinia pestis) has been identified in a 4,000-year-old domesticated sheep.

Garrott speculated that more extensive nuclear DNA samples would be more likely to show such a change in bighorn sheep genes over thousands of years. But retrieving that information from ancient bone ...

JENSEN, Utah (KUTV) — Federal authorities are investigating damage to a significant archaeological site in Uintah County where climbing bolts were illegally installed on the historic Pregnant Sheep ...

A flock of grazing sheep is helping archaeologists to preserve the ancient ruins of Pompeii, the Roman city that was buried under meters of pumice and ash in the calamitous eruption of Mount Vesuvius ...

Known only from ancient DNA, the ‘LNBA plague’ lineage has left scientists puzzled about its origin and transmission. Now the ancient plague has been identified in an animal for the first time - a ...