Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://mypepack.gophersport.com/video/?vid=ksJ6FbbpmST Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The Origins Of Cats Were Never What We Thought — Ancient DNA Finally Revealed The Truth Nesil Caliskan [qiSvnwjuqeh] Health Updated on August 07, 2026 EDT — Published on August 07, 2026 EDT Tag: #Nesil Caliskan, #neil diamond, #delivery, #mario vendittiAncient DNA extracted from 209 cats buried across nine thousand years of human stephen colbert last show history produced one of the most overturning findings in the field of animal domestication not because of when cats first lived with us, but because of where, how many times, and on whose terms it actually happened.Cats were not domesticated in Egypt. The story almost every textbook still tells pharaohs, temples, the goddess Bastet begins thousands of years after the real origin. The first cats lived alongside humans in the Levant nearly ten thousand years ago, in farming villages older than any pyramid. They were not bred. They were not tamed in any traditional sense. They moved fanduel in by themselves and stayed because the arrangement suited them. A second, separate domestication later began in Egypt and spread along Mediterranean trade routes eventually riding on Viking longships across the North Sea. And for nine thousand years afterward, humans almost never bred cats at all. The cat in your home today is, in genetic terms, nearly the same animal that was buried at a Neolithic farmer's feet on the island of Cyprus.Drawing on findings from the 2017 landmark study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution on the palaeogenetics of cat dispersal (Ottoni et al.), alongside the 2007 Driscoll study identifying vfl wolfsburg vs bayern munich standings the African wildcat as the ancestor of every modern domestic cat. Subscribe new ancient DNA discoveries posted every few days. What is YOUR pet, really?Read your dog or cat's DNA results the way the science actually reads them breed, ancestry, health, and the ancient story hiding in every pet. Get the guide:
Tag: #Nesil Caliskan, #neil diamond, #delivery, #mario vendittiAncient DNA extracted from 209 cats buried across nine thousand years of human stephen colbert last show history produced one of the most overturning findings in the field of animal domestication not because of when cats first lived with us, but because of where, how many times, and on whose terms it actually happened.Cats were not domesticated in Egypt. The story almost every textbook still tells pharaohs, temples, the goddess Bastet begins thousands of years after the real origin. The first cats lived alongside humans in the Levant nearly ten thousand years ago, in farming villages older than any pyramid. They were not bred. They were not tamed in any traditional sense. They moved fanduel in by themselves and stayed because the arrangement suited them. A second, separate domestication later began in Egypt and spread along Mediterranean trade routes eventually riding on Viking longships across the North Sea. And for nine thousand years afterward, humans almost never bred cats at all. The cat in your home today is, in genetic terms, nearly the same animal that was buried at a Neolithic farmer's feet on the island of Cyprus.Drawing on findings from the 2017 landmark study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution on the palaeogenetics of cat dispersal (Ottoni et al.), alongside the 2007 Driscoll study identifying vfl wolfsburg vs bayern munich standings the African wildcat as the ancestor of every modern domestic cat. Subscribe new ancient DNA discoveries posted every few days. What is YOUR pet, really?Read your dog or cat's DNA results the way the science actually reads them breed, ancestry, health, and the ancient story hiding in every pet. Get the guide: