Nearly two millennia ago at an ancient port on the Red Sea, elite Roman officers seem to have kept some unusual primate pets—and loved them dearly. In a Roman animal cemetery at the port of Berenike, ...

Roman military officers stationed in Egypt kept pet monkeys imported from India as a symbol of wealth, according to a new study of an ancient animal cemetery containing the bodies of dozens of ...

How much interaction did the Romans have with Ancient India? A new article in the Journal of Roman Archaeology investigates the discovery of several burials for pet monkeys at the Red Sea port of ...

This is the amusing moment pet monkeys were spotted hitching a ride on a motorcycle with their owner. Passing motorists saw two macaques riding on the two-wheeler on a busy road in Prachuap Khiri Khan ...