However, in the 900s A.D., the Arab historian al-Maqrizi described a peculiar—and possibly groundbreaking—application of “pigeon post.” He wrote that a powerful caliph of the Fatimid ...

For instance, the English Naval chaplain Henry Teonge (1620–1690) wrote in his diary of a regular “pigeon post” being used by merchants to transmit news between Iskenderun (in present-day ...

Of the 290 known pigeon species in the world – only one has from the wild adapted to live among people in villages and cities. The feral pigeon (Columba Livia) has been domesticated by man for ...