people , associated cats with fertility, and so a mass sacrifice of cats to the gods of fertility had a certain odd logic to it. We still hav...
Why did the Celts do it?
In merry olde England
island was invaded by the Angles, the Germanic tribe that gradually turned Britannia into Angle-land, or England.
Cats versus ferrets
rodents and rabbits by burrowing into their prey’s hiding places. People in the ancient world often used them as rodent exterminators, but ...
Cat in the afterlife
It’s always touching to look at the grave of a child, and certainly this is true of a very ancient grave-stone found in France. Dating from ...
The Roman goddess Liberty
Americans were not the first people to have a Statue of Liberty. To the ancient Romans, Liberty was worshipped as a goddess. Appropriately, t...
Soldiers and cats?
Yes, the Roman armies that marched through and conquered much of Europe and northern Africa carried cats with them and kept them at their fo...
Morphing to cattus Felis
The early Romans used felis to refer to the domestic cat, but in time the word cattus replaced it. When did the change occur? We can’t be ce...
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