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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.
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 · Statue of Sekhmet, found in Thebes, 18th dynasty; with a statue of Bastet, found in Bubastis, 900-600 BCE, via the British Museum. While cats in ancient Egypt played a crucial role in Egyptian religion, it would be a mistake to imagine that the Egyptians worshipped cats.
2 Αυγ 2021 · Nedjem was found in the tomb of a noble man named Puimre, and unlike dogs, it was uncommon to name cats in ancient Egypt. Domestication of cats started in the Near East around 7500 B.C.
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 ...
31 Μαρ 2024 · Historical records suggest that approximately 3,000 years ago, Egyptians domesticated and venerated cats, integrating them deeply into their culture. They worshipped a deity named Bastet,...
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.
