Despite the ubiquity of cats in modern homes, we still don't know many details about the timing and routes of early cat ...

When looking at the cat remains that were thought to have arrived to the West about 6,000 years ago, the researchers realized ...

Scans of an ancient cat mummy revealed that the 2,500-year-old feline supposedly resting within the wrappings wasn't a single animal. Instead, the mummy held the partial remains of three cats, ...

An ancient Egyptian mummified cat thought to be a single creature was actually made up of body parts from several different felines, and had a textile ball in place of the head, scientists in France ...

There’s no doubt scientific cat facts are endlessly fascinating, but learning about the way cats were treated in Ancient Egypt is something special. Case in point: This video from New Historia, which ...

New DNA studies show domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread later than believed, while ancient China lived ...

All modern cats are descended from the African wildcat but how and when they became pampered pets has been a question ...

If you have a cat at home, you might see your furry friend often curl up and take a snooze near a window where sunlight beams inside. That behavior was one reason the ancient Egyptians thought cats ...

If you’ve ever lived with a cat, you know they’re often an enigma. That said, scientists may have solved an enduring mystery ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists are gaining new insight into the ancient Egyptian practice of mummifying animals, using high-resolution 3D scans to peer inside mummies of a cat, a bird and a snake ...

If you've ever thought that people nowadays are a bit obsessed with cats, allow me to (re)introduce you to ancient Egyptian culture. Cats are reverently depicted throughout thousands of years of ...