Every fossil find and genetic study tweaks what we think we know about the timeline or the circumstances under which ...

Sheba pet food is searching for a domestic cat in the U.S. with links to the feline nobility of ancient Egypt with help from ...

Eventually, some ancient Egyptians likely welcomed the cats home as adorable pet companions, they say. The domestication and spread of animals driven by cults is not uncommon. For instance, previous ...

The Egyptians treated them with reverence and adoration having, first domesticated them 4,000 years ago. Since then the small ...

Cats certainly traveled long distances: DNA from Egyptian cats has been found as far as a Viking site in northern Germany dating to between A.D. 700 and 1000. The oldest known burial of a domesticated ...

Cat coffins and representations of the cat-headed goddess Bastet are among the extraordinary objects that reveal felines’ critical role in ancient Egyptian religious, social, and political life.

Sheba and agency AMV BBDO search for royal kitties in America, launching a content series and new product as part of the stunt.

A reported attack by a caracal wild cat on Israeli soldiers has gone viral among social media users in the Arab world. Israeli authorities captured the animal after it attacked soldiers at a southern ...

Research has found that some of today's U.S. house cats could be the descendants of the feline nobility of ancient Egypt. Dr. Leslie A. Lyons of the Feline Genetics & Comparative Medicine Lab at ...