The mystery of how cats went from wild animals to domesticated pets may have been solved by a team of researchers who have extracted DNA from mummified cats found in Ancient Egyptian tombs.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Buried deep within this ancient Egyptian tomb are dozens of mummies. Mummies of cats. Cat mummies ...

Archaeologists discovered dozens of mummified cats in seven previously undisturbed tombs in a 4,500-year-old pyramid complex near Saqqara, south of Cairo. The cats were found along with a ...

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.

Cats are an extreme outlier among domestic animals Massive study of ancient and modern cat genomes reveals an unusual history.