Were Cats Domesticated in Egypt?
Summary: Dna Found at Archaeological Sites Reveals That the Origins of Our Domestic Cat Are in the Near East and Ancient Egypt. Cats Were Domesticated by the...
Summary: DNA found at archaeological sites reveals that the origins of our domestic cat are in the Near East and ancient Egypt. Cats were domesticated by the first farmers some 10,000 years ago. They later spread across Europe and other parts of the world via trade hub Egypt.
When did Egypt domesticate cats?
Archaeologists once believed that cats were domesticated in the time of the pharaohs in ancient Egypt, approximately 4,000 years ago, between 2310 B.C. and 1950 B.C. But in 2004, researchers reported a 9,500-year-old joint burial of a cat and a human on the island of Cyprus.
Did domestic cats originate in Egypt?
Answer. Domesticated cats all come from wildcats called Felis silvestris lybica that originated in the Fertile Crescent in the Near East Neolithic period and in ancient Egypt in the Classical period. National Photo Co.
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