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

The hat lay flattened and moth-eaten for more than a century in a museum box. Now, the rare 2,000-year-old headpiece (made ...

In this new study, a team analyzed the genomes of 70 ancient cats, dating back over the last 11,000 years (from about 9000 BCE to 19th century CE). The genomes were taken from bones found 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 ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is being built to map the universe on a scale no previous observatory has attempted, ...

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

This September, 15 students began online classes at a new university in California that hopes to become a “Catholic MIT” ...

Aerial view of the temple of Venus located in the archaeological park of Baia, a hamlet of Bacoli, in the metropolitan city of Naples, in Campania, Italy. It was an octagonal thermal building, with ...

When the Romans invaded Britain in 43 AD, they introduced a host of innovations, including roads. Now, scientists say we have something else to thank the Romans for: pet cats.

Pope Leo XIV marks a high point of his first foreign trip to Turkey with a pilgrimage to Iznik. He prays Friday with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the site of the 325 AD Council of Nicaea.

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world.

Crucially, these findings contradict a long-standing theory that domestication in Europe occurred much earlier – some 6,000 ...