I tried by Twitter and e-mail to contact everyone's favorite Ancient Aliens theorist and founder of Legendary Times Books, Giorgio Tsoukalos to get his opinion, but he didn't reply.Ģ. One ancient Egyptian papyrus depicts Ra, the sun god, as a knife-wielding cat with spots. Some of the Egyptian gods were cats, like Bastet, the goddess of joy and love. But cats weren't simply viewed as gifts from the gods. Cats were beloved as pets they were mourned like family members when they died they were embalmed and buried with varying degrees of pomp according to its owner's wealth cat cemeteries were plotted along the banks of the Nile the penalty for killing a cat was death. Cats were, indeed, revered by the ancient Egyptians, the Sunquists write. "Looking at just skeletons it's basically impossible to say when cats stopped being wild and started being domesticated." Haupt said.Īs for cat worship, the picture is a bit more complicated than the conspiracy theorist asserts. What older feline skeletons have been found elsewhere don't provide clear "evidence as to whether they were domesticated or not," Haupt said, adding, however, that they "probably" weren't. To find out more about the fossil record, I emailed Ryan Haupt, a paleontologist at the University of Wyoming who, as he described it for a previous interview, "studies the lives of modern mammals to better understand what their extinct relatives were doing in the past." He said Egypt was "the best guess" for the origin of the domestic cat species, but noted that "cat skeletons have been found at older sites."Įxporting domestic cats was illegal in ancient Egypt, according to Wild Cats of the World, a book by Mel and Fiona Sunquist, which may explain why they don't appear definitively in the records of other civilizations until thousands of years later than early cat records in Egypt. And in ancient Egypt, they were worshipped as gifts from the gods.Īs with several of these premises, these propositions are mostly true, but also somewhat disputable. There is no documentation before ancient Egypt that mentions the existence of cats. I've appropriated his/her list here (lightly edited for style and clarity), with the original points bolded.Įxamine the evidence and decide for yourself:ġ. A user who goes by the moniker "RedSpider" summarizes the prevailing wisdom in a handy list on the British tech message board, Digital Kaos. How much? Motherboard decided to take a look at some of the supporting premises, one-by-one. Then again, 4 percent is much higher than one might have expected for the lizard people theory, and, according to the same poll, some 29 percent of Americans believe aliens exist and 14 percent believe in Bigfoot, so who knows?Īs with most conspiracy theories, the cats-as-alien-spies theory is surprisingly well-developed-and based on a few kernels of truth and genuine ambiguity.
It's impossible to know just how pervasive cats-as-alien spies theory is without an adequate polling apparatus (if you have one, please get in touch).
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As a poll published just yesterday reveals, 51 percent of Americans believe the JFK assassination was a conspiracy 15 percent believe "the government or the media adds mind-controlling technology to TV broadcast signals" and 4 percent believe reptilian shapeshifters control the government.
We humans love our conspiracy theories, and there's a decent chance this is just another among them.
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