It is said that domestic cats originated in ancient Egypt?

The five subspecies of cats are, from top to bottom, European wildcats, African wildcats, South African wildcats, Central Asian wildcats and China wildcats. As early as 5,000 years ago, the skeleton fossils of cats were unearthed in the ruins of Hu Quan Village, indicating that domestication had taken place at that time.

Ancient Egypt can only say that it paid more attention to cat culture. The best is a bronze statue of a cat, and a large number of murals and reliefs have cats.

However, this behavior of taming cats against mice cannot be said that only domestic cats in ancient Egypt will be wild. The key is domestication, otherwise it is not enough to spread local cats around the world.

I can only say that the earliest origin of domestic cats is related to human domestication, but the literature we can see now is either unrecorded or incomplete, but it is impossible to spread from one place to the whole world. Not wild animals, even wild animals migrate, and there are places that cannot pass, such as oceans and deserts.