Imagine a predator so powerful it could take down prey with a single, bone-crushing bite—yet so swift it moved like a shadow ...

The story of the Abyssinian cat is as old as civilization itself—rich with mystery, elegance, and a dash of wild spirit.

In Ancient Egypt, 1,500 years before Christ, cats were not only companions but afforded almost godly status. In a more ...

The ancient Egyptians mummified countless cats, and even created the world's first known pet cemetery, a nearly 2,000-year-old burial ground that largely holds cats wearing remarkable iron and ...

The popular perception of ancient Egyptian cats has been driven by which monuments happen to survive to present day, but an examination of additional data reveals a striped surprise.

In Ancient Egypt, cats and humans developed a remarkably close relationship as shown by numerous depictions in art from around 2,000BC. And it appears something about these Egyptian cats made them ...

Cats take over Japanese island 04:11. Cats were clearly tame by about 3,500 years ago in Egypt, where paintings often placed them beneath chairs. That shows by that time, "the cat makes its way to ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Long before cats became the darlings of Facebook and YouTube, they spread through the ancient human world. A DNA study reached back thousands of years to track that conquest and found ...

Modern cat lovers can thank the farmers of ancient Anatolia in the Near East for domesticating their fluffy friends about 10,000 years ago, a new study finds.

New evidence suggests that cats have been the friends of humans for far longer than previously assumed. Published by Nature Research, “The paleogenetic of cat dispersal in the ancient world ...