Kitten Burial Hints Egyptians Kept Cats 6,000 Years Ago
Monday, March 17, 2014 - 10:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The skeletons of six cats, including four kittens, found in an Egyptian cemetery may push back the date of cat domestication in Egypt by nearly 2,000 years.The bones come from a cemetery for the wealthy in Hierakonpolis, which served as the capital of Upper Egypt in the era before the pharaohs.