Domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread to Europe in the past 2000 years, according to DNA evidence, while in ...

The team analyzed DNA from 225 ancient cat specimens collected across Europe, North Africa, and Anatolia. These were were bones and teeth spanning more than 10,000 years of human history. From these ...

A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the ...

Leopard cats were living alongside people in ancient China for more than 3,500 years before domestic cats arrived from Europe ...

Recent genetic analysis challenges long-held belief about the origins of domestic cats from the Levant and their arrival in ...

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In Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse, Luke Kemp smashes the Overton window out of its frame, then ...

The past eight decades have been the longest period without a war between great powers since the Roman Empire. This anomalous era of extended peace came after two catastrophic wars, each of which was ...

Ultimately, these 573 fortresses redefine what we know about northern China’s prehistory. Long before the first emperors unified the land, people were already experimenting with civilization, laying ...

The research published on Thursday in Nature presents the first direct genetic evidence regarding the origins of the Shimao population -- the builders of Shimao, a massive Neolithic walled settlement ...

Domestic cats only started appearing in Europe about 2,000 years ago, much later than previously believed, and with a ...

Cats have been on quite a journey from wild animal to undisputed ruler of millions of couches worldwide. A pair of new studies published on Thursday show that the road to cat domestication was far ...