However, ancient and medieval Egypt stood apart from the prevailing cat myths and the general purging of the feline population. Cats were still revered and treated as semi-divine beings there. In addition, thanks to a Greek historian, Herodotus, the cat took on another role which allowed scribed history to continue to flourish.
A Strange History
Beginning with their assumed “self-domestication” in ancient Egypt, felines were celebrated and esteemed not only for their beauty but for the importance of their jobs within a home environment—or anywhere else where there was evidence of pesky rodents. Food was not their only target; rats or other rodents also nibbled their own “designs” into what are now priceless scrolls, papyrus tomes, and other historical manuscripts. Herodotus wrote extensively, and frequently mentioned the importance of cats in society in his writings. He “relates how carefully humans tend to their animals’ needs as a reflection of Egyptian religion. To the ancient Egyptians, animals, like everything else around them, were a gift from the gods, and it was their responsibility to value and care for all such gifts,”7 especially cats, whose hunting prowess ensured the safety of both food stores and history.
The Library of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was constructed in the third century BC. The ornate buildings housed not only collections of manuscripts, but lecture halls, gardens, and reading centers. It “served as the nation’s epicenter of scholarship, and cats played a central role in its development.”5
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