Sunday 1 June 2014

Animals In Art Down Through History

image credit: Sam Salt

According to P. G. Wodehouse, cats have never completely gotten over the snootiness caused by the fact that in ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods. Their domestication, however, goes back even further to the Stone Age when a Cypriot grave, estimated to be about 9,500 years old, was discovered with the remains of a cat buried beside a man, suggesting a close bond between human and feline.

Animals In Art Down Through History.

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