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Dogs were highly valued in ancient Rome, as they were in other cultures, and the Roman dog served many of the same purposes as it did in, say, Egypt and Persia - as hunters, guardians, and companions...

Pair of silver dogs wearing hatched collars from the 3rd-2nd millennium BCE originating in Bactria in Central Asia. The dogs are 1.5 inches (4 cm) long with a vertical hole through each. It is thought they may have been...

An illumination from a Late Medieval manuscript made in Brittany, France c. 1430 - 1440 CE. The painting portrays a hunters and their dogs attacking a wounded wildcat which is clinging to a tree. From Ms...

These counterparts of real mastiffs were buried to guard a property from devils and demons. Ritual instructions for making and inscribing them survive on clay tablets. This pack was found beneath a palace doorway at...

A 2nd-century CE Roman statue group of two sighthounds playing, discovered in 1774 CE in Monte Cagniolo, Italy. The group was once nicknamed "The Townley Greyhounds", after their owner Charles Townley. However, the dogs...

The Egyptian 'Four Dogs' cosmetic palette. Louvre, Paris.

Perforated silver plaque; lightly embossed scene of two long-tailed hunting dogs resembling mastiffs, one on either side of a male wild boar facing right, with a forked tail, from Iran, 6-7th century. The...

In honour of International Dog Day on August 26th World History Encyclopedia are taking you through the history and myths all about dogs from Ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, China, Mesopotamia and...

In Medieval times, a dog that resembled a Corgi was used to help turn meat over a spit by walking in a hamster wheel for hours. The breed has been extinct since the early 1900s.

Animal husbandry is commonly defined as a branch of agriculture dealing with the domestication, breeding, and rearing of animals for various purposes including labor (as in the case of large animals), a food source, protection...