PC: Wikimedia Commons Wild cats first self domesticated in east and Egypt about 10000 years back according to DNA evidence. Egyptians believed that cats are magical creatures that brings good luck to their households and they honored these pets by dressing them in jewels and mummifying once dead. Cats were considered as the embodiment of the spirit of the goddess Bastet and in the battle of Pelusium in 525BC Persians used images of cats in their shields so that egyptians would be reluctant to attack. This strategy worked marking the end of the first major battle between the Achaemenid empire and Egypt. It is said that cats were brought to Europe by Romans and up to this date we all adore these purring fur balls. But there was a time in history that cats were considered as incarnations of Satan and exterminated.