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

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

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 ...

Collection of cat figurines dedicated to the ancient Egyptian deity Bastet (AFP via Getty Images) This brings the focus back to Egypt as the origin site of cat domestication possibly as recent as ...

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

Ancient Egypt is well known to have been the cradle of human civilisation where feline domestication and worship were prevalent. Several mummified cat remains and deities like the Egyptian goddess ...

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

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

Ancient people built ... to in the ancient times In ancient Egypt, cats were far more than beloved pets, they were sacred beings linked to the goddess Bastet. Cats were believed to ward off ...

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