The domestic chicken descends from the south-east Asian Red Junglefowl, whose species is Gallus gallus. Its domestication started in Asia nearly 8000 years before our era.
In ancient Egypt, the first traces of artificial incubators were found.
Its arrival in Europe would date the VI century before our era.
The Celts knew the cock and the hen, of which they consumed eggs, before the conquest by Jules César. This is the propable reason why the Romans named the region "Gaule", of the Latin word Gallus.
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