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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.
17 Αυγ 2021 · Along with hieroglyphics, obelisks and geometric patterns, cats feature prominently in ancient Egyptian art, reflecting the animal’s unique status among the people who dwelled along the Nile...
17 Νοε 2012 · Although it has been commonly accepted that cats were first domesticated in Egypt 4000 years ago, their history among human beings goes back much further.
24 Νοε 2023 · Ancient Egyptians domesticated African wildcats, believing they descended from them, for their adept hunting skills and graceful demeanor, thus giving rise to the Mau breed with deeply rooted origins in Egyptian history, tracing back to the earliest dynasties of this civilization.
7 Δεκ 2021 · The cat probably arrived in Egypt on board ancient trading ships around 2,000 BCE. Although according to another theory cats in ancient Egypt were an offshoot of the native African wildcat Felis silvestris lybica, “domesticated” by local farmers.
15 Αυγ 2024 · The oldest images of cats in ancient Egypt appear as hieroglyphs at Lisht. A block relief dating to the later Old Kingdom (found within the Middle Kingdom pyramid complex of Amenemhat I) names a city called Miuu, written as three seated cats that reads ‘Lord of Cats’ Town’.
It is sometimes suggested that cats were introduced into Egypt from Persia around 2000 B.C.E or from Nubia during the New Kingdom but this is unlikely due to significant evidence that cats lived in Egypt before these dates. In fact, archaeologists found a man interred with his cat in a burial mound in Mostagedda near Asyut dated to around 6,000 ...
