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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.
This is a list of the oldest cats in the world, verified or not, listed by reported age, all of whom have attained the minimum age of 25 years. Aging in cats depends on breed, size and diet. Some of the ages reported here are approximate. Others are based on either estimates or hearsay.
The cat dates from the Late Period of ancient Egypt around 600 BC. It's named after Major Robert Grenville Gayer-Anderson, who donated the statue to the British Museum in 1939. Gayer-Anderson was a keen collector of small Egyptian sculptures, jewellery and pottery.
7 Δεκ 2021 · Instead, cats in ancient Egypt domesticated themselves, deciding whether to jump into humans’ laps. The earliest evidence of cats and humans living together in close companionship comes from the island of Cyprus, where the archeologists unearthed a 9500-year-old grave of a prehistoric tabby , buried together with her owner.
24 Μαΐ 2024 · The oldest archaeological evidence for cat domestication is a 9,500-year-old grave, discovered in Cyprus in 2004, in which a Paleolithic-era human was buried with their feline pet.
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 ...
8 Απρ 2004 · This new find, from the Neolithic village of Shillourokambos, predates early Egyptian art depicting cats by 4,000 years or more.
