Cat Coffin

Egyptian cat mummies were placed in decorative funerary boxes and coffins. This gilded coffin opens from the bottom to insert the mummy. The mummy found inside is of an undetermined species. It's either a Felis silvestris, Felis lybica, or Felis chaus. The former is domesticated and the latter two are native wildcats.Felines were first domesticated by farmers in the historical Fertile Crescent nearly 10,000 years ago. Thousands of years later, Egyptians domesticated Felis silvestris lybica. Similarly, farmers had a hand in the process, using cats to protect their crops from pests.