Discover how today’s cats might trace their roots back to cult rituals in ancient Egypt.

While it is common to see cats in modern households, cats are among the most recently domesticated animals. Archaeological ...

Archaeologists discover secret behind why we keep cats as pets - Temples dedicated to Egyptian goddess Bastet have been found ...

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 ...

Sheba pet food is searching for a domestic cat in the U.S. with links to the feline nobility of ancient Egypt with help from ...

or whether the cats spread from Turkey to Egypt. Either way, Egyptians treasured cats' protectiveness and independence and saw the traits of their gods in cats. Cats were sometimes even mummified ...

Research has found that some of today's U.S. house cats could be the descendants of the feline nobility of ancient Egypt. Dr. Leslie A. Lyons of the Feline Genetics & Comparative Medicine Lab at ...