A sheep skull modified by the ancient Egyptians so that the horns extend upward instead of outward.
B. de Cupert
A sheep with deformed horns is one of the more mysterious animal remains found in ancient Egyptian burial sites dating back to around 3700 BC. They are also the earliest physical evidence that humans modified the horns of domestic animals.
“Sheep were deliberately made ‘special’ by castration,” he says. Wim van Niel At the Royal Institute of Natural Sciences of Belgium. “Furthermore, the horns were pointing upwards, and in some cases, the horns came off.”
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