For ancient Egyptians, owning a menagerie of exotic animals conveyed power and wealth. But the remains of baboons, hippos, and other elite pets buried more than 5,000 years ago in a graveyard near the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient sheep buried in an elite grave in Egypt show the oldest evidence of humans deliberately deforming the horns of livestock.

This is a cat buried in a 6,000-year-old in Hierakonpolis, Egypt.

The skeletons of six cats, including four kittens, found in an Egyptian cemetery may push back the date of cat domestication in Egypt by nearly 2,000 years. The bones come from a cemetery for the ...

Hierakonpolis, Hampi, Cliff Palace, Delos, and the Plain of Jars highlight early capitals, sacred monuments, and burial traditions from ancient civilizations. Congress clinches $1.2T funding deal for ...

A small ivory statuette previously found in a different tomb in Hierakonpolis. The Daily Mail has photos of objects found at the new site. Heritage Images/Corbis Near the Egyptian city of Edfu, in the ...

Some 5,600 years ago, people in the Egyptian city of Hierakonpolis did something that’s still a very popular activity today: they brewed and drank beer. We know this because archaeologists examining ...

Ancient Egyptian elites drank thick porridge-like beer around 5,800 years ago, a new study suggests. Researchers analysed fragments of pottery found at Hierakonpolis, an ancient city and current ...