https://abcnews.go.com/US/domesticated-cats-arrived-west-previously-thought-study/story?id=127823619
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt2642
Apparently cats were only introduced into Europe by the Romans 2,000
years ago. There is evidence that they may have been domesticated in
Egypt 10,000 years ago, but for some reason they did not enter Europe
with the first agriculturalists. They are supposed to be rare in the Archeological record because we didn't eat them like we ate dogs, so
they aren't found in ancient trash piles.
They have cat mummies in Egypt that are over 4,000 years old, but for
some reason the dispersal of domestic cats didn't happen until they
followed the Roman army around.
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