Cats have been domesticated since ancient times

Recent research suggests that cats have been domesticated since ancient times and are close-up animals of humans no less than dogs.

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Wim Van Neer of the Royal Institute of Natural Sciences in Belgium, who published the Archaeological magazine study, said that humans and cats have a very close relationship.

Scientists can confirm this by discovering a group of skeletons buried in the cemetery in Hierakonpolis (also known as Nekhen), Egypt.

The skeletons date back to about 3,700 BC. It was the skeleton of seven small wild cats, including a cat whose healing bones were healed. This shows that this cat has been taken care of for several weeks before dying.

Scientists believe that they seem to have been killed because they are sacrifices of religious rituals.

It is known that cats are a symbol of grace and respect. Some cats receive mummification like humans after death and are often reserved for goddess Bastet.

Dr. Fiona Marshall of the University of Washington in St. Louis said that after the analysis, including the application of radiocarbon methods on bones, these cats hunt rodents living on millet to survive.

He also argued that the 5,300-year-old cats had previously been domesticated to control the villagers' hamster problem. And the relationship between people and cats is a birth relationship.

DNA research shows that an estimated 600 million domestic cats in the world today are mostly descendants of eastern wild cats, which now live in North Africa and the Middle East.