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For a long time we were taught and believed that cats were first domesticate around 4,000 years ago in Egypt. Turns out a recent archaeological discovery on Cyprus shows that should be at least 9,500 years.
As an uninhabited island at that time Cyprus had no native cats. A burial of that age was discovered in 2004 showing a cat buried alongside a boy.
This was shortly after the start of agriculture so they had to have brought the cat with them
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/04/040409092827.htm