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4 Μαρ 2021 · In Egypt, a decade of excavations at the ancient Red Sea port of Berenice (Berenike) has revealed what some researchers are calling the world’s oldest pet cemetery. Nearly 600 animals,...
- The Final Resting Places of 7 Famous Dogs
Owned by no one but beloved by all, Brownie, a large, brown,...
- The Final Resting Places of 7 Famous Dogs
26 Φεβ 2021 · The site, located in the early Roman port of Berenice, was found 10 years ago, but its purpose was mysterious. Now, a detailed excavation has unearthed the burials of nearly 600 cats and dogs, along with the strongest evidence yet that these animals were treasured pets.
5 Μαρ 2021 · Excavations show how humans treated cats, dogs and monkeys in first- and second-century Egypt
6 Δεκ 2016 · One catacomb at the Temple of Anubis in Saqqara described last year contained over eight million animal mummies, most of them young dogs.
8 Απρ 2004 · This new find, from the Neolithic village of Shillourokambos, predates early Egyptian art depicting cats by 4,000 years or more.
8 Απρ 2004 · Until this find, the oldest evidence of tame cats came from Egypt, where 4000-year-old remains and paintings document cats' place of honor in that culture. For the past decade Jean-Denis Vigne, an archaeologist at the Natural History Museum in Paris, and his colleagues have been analyzing animal bones from an archaeological dig at a town called ...
In 1830, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg accounted of having observed three different small cat forms in Egypt: the jungle cat, the African wildcat, and a sacred cat that was intermediate in size between the jungle cat and the domestic cat.