Ancient Egyptians shaped sheep’s horns – and we don’t know why

Sheep with deformed horns are among the many extra mysterious animal stays found at an historic Egyptian burial website courting again to round 3700 BC. Additionally they characterize the oldest bodily proof of people modifying the horns of livestock.

“The sheep had been intentionally made ‘particular’ by castration,” says Wim Van Neer on the Royal Belgian Institute of Pure Sciences. “As well as, their horns had been directed upward, and in a single case, the horns had been eliminated.”