New research has overturned everything we thought we knew about cat domestication. Forget the theory that cats simply ...

In ancient Egypt, mass cult ritual sacrifices of cats gave rise to the furry felines becoming human companions, according to ...

Ancient Egypt is well known to have been ... Excavations have also found that the temples and sanctuaries dedicated to Bastet are situated around vast ancient agricultural landscapes.

For decades, researchers have theorized that ancient cats in and around Cyprus —  located southeast of Greece, south of Turkey —most likely followed early farmers and then “gradually got accustomed to ...