The macabre world of ancient Egyptian ritual sacrifice may have contributed to the domestication of cats, new research ...

Ancient Egypt is well known to have been ... Several mummified cat remains and deities like the Egyptian goddess Bastet suggest that the furry felines and humans lived alongside each other in ...

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

Eventually, some ancient Egyptians likely welcomed the cats home as adorable pet companions, they say. The domestication and ...

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

Research suggests cat sacrifices in Egypt may have helped shape the tameness of today’s house cats, reshaping the history of ...

Animals have played roles that go far beyond their presence in the natural world since the times of ancient civilisations to ...

By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...

Animals have played roles that go far beyond their presence in the natural world since the times of ancient civilisations ... sacred beings linked to the goddess Bastet. Cats were believed to ...

Two groundbreaking studies challenge the traditional timeline of cat domestication, highlighting the pivotal influence of ...

But Egyptology, the formal study of ancient Egyptian civilization ... dedicated to the cat goddess Bastet, that had been cut into limestone cliffs near the site’s eastern boundary around ...