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Archaeological evidence of cat "making biscuits" 1,200 years ago

Allan Rose Hill
Oct 25, 2024
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image: The Mount Zion Archaeological Expedition/Shimon Gibson

Archaeologists excavating Mount Zion—just outside Jerusalem's Old City—found evidence of a very comfortable cat. They discovered a piece of a ceramic jug that had imprints of a cat's arm and paw prints indicating the cat was kneading the clay.

"The paw print indicates that the small cat was pro…

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