The human grave, also containing jewelry, tools and other items, has been dated to 7500 B.C. French anthropologist Jean-Denis Vigne, who made the discovery, says the arrival of cats in human ...

By the 4th century BCE, domestic cats had reached Britain. At Gussage All Saints, archaeologists uncovered five kitten skeletons buried together, likely a deliberate human act.

Inbreeding with domestic cats has become a serious threat to Afro ... This theory was mainly based on a complete cat skeleton, dated to roughly 7500 BCE, found buried with a man on Cyprus.

Unlike dogs, whose bodies and temperaments have transformed radically during the roughly 30,000 years we've lived with them, domestic ... cat trading [was] imposed in Egypt as early as 1700 BCE." ...

In true feline form, cats took their time deciding whether to jump into humans’ laps. In a new comprehensive study of the spread of domesticated cats, DNA analysis suggests that cats lived for ...

"The cat we found in the grave may have been pre-domesticated - something in between savage and domestic. Alternatively, it's possible it was really domestic," Professor Jean Guilaine, of the CNRS ...