Dogs have still been around our fires longer, but cats weren't as far behind was once thought, according to French archeologists who found skeletons in ancient Cyprus graves in 2004.
The skeleton find suggests that cats have lived with people about 9,000 years – about 5,000 years longer that thought.
The archeologists found the complete skeleton of an 8-month-old cat buried next to a wealthy 30-year-old man. The cat and the man were posed in the same position less than a fott away from each other, indicating a close personal relationship.
The discovery narrowed the gap between taming cats and dogs to a mere 3,000 years.
This discovery was puzzling since it put cats in Cyprus before the rise of Egyptian civilizations thought to have domesticated cats. The puzzle was solved when separate research on mitochondrial DNA in five species and determined that domestic cats actually are descended from a Near Eastern wild cat, native to the deserts of the Middle East.
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