Today's Japanese maneki-neko, the famous "beckoning cat" statue, is a distant tribute to these early Silk Road travelers who made Japan their home. At first, cats were purely practical with a job ...

Have you ever wondered how it is to be a cat and what’s necessary to survive out there? Well, Warrior Cats Ultimate Edition will show you every little part of those fluffy monsters’ experience!

Cats may have been pets for Kazakh pastoralists along the Silk Road over 1,000 years ago, a new study said. Tests on a cat skeleton found along the Silk Road in southern Kazakhstan revealed that ...

The modern world’s pet cats are products ... remains of one cat who lived in medieval Kazakhstan, between 775 and 940 C.E.

Common domestic cats, as we know them today ... by new analyses done on an almost complete cat skeleton found during an excavation along the former Silk Road in southern Kazakhstan.

The Dhzankent cat is the oldest-known domestic cat along the Silk Road, offering tantalizing clues about the origins of domestic cats in China. The Silk Road's heyday lasted between A.D. 500 and ...

It is the oldest known domestic cat found on the Silk Road. Consequently, the researchers suggest that the arrival of domestic cats in East Asia could have been facilitated by the Silk Road.