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WORLD'S OLDEST PET CEMETERY
A 2,000-year-old pet cemetery that may be the oldest known example in the world was discovered in Berenice, a port on Egypt's Red Sea coast. The animals buried in this cemetery appeared to have died of natural causes and been treated with loving care. At other sites in Egypt that have animal burials the animals were often sacrificed.

At the pet cemetery archaeologists found a variety of animals including a large dog who was wrapped in a mat of palm leaves. They also include toothless dogs and cats who were very old when they died and may have required help from their owners to eat. "Our discovery shows that we humans have a deep need for the companionship of animals," said lead researcher Marta Osypińska, a zooarchaeologist at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.

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