The remains of six male sheep with altered horns were found at the ancient Egyptian burial complex of Hierakonpolis, dating ...

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 ...

Scientists have used traces of retrovirus DNA to map ancient sheep migration across Asia, Europe, and Africa, a paper in this week's Science reports. The results may help settle a debate about where ...

Sheep are among the animals that humans domesticated first, in the Middle East during the dawn of agriculture. A new genetic study of hundreds of ancient sheep remains, which date across 12 ...