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 ...

Now, two yet-to-be peer-reviewed DNA studies debunk this theory, finding that the Cyprus animal is actually a European wildcat ... “We demonstrate that domestic cats did not spread to Europe ...