Archaeologist: Researchers excavating a burial site in Cyprus found a feline skeleton lying near a human skeleton  Both skeletons were in the same sediment at the same depth and equally well-preserved, suggesting that the feline and human were buried together about 9, 500 years ago
This shows that felines were domesticated around the time farming began, when they would have been useful in protecting stores of grain from mice
Archaeologists have not found any remains of stores of grain in the immediate vicinity of the burial site.