Comment by ChrisArchitect

The full study links:

The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt2642

The late arrival of domestic cats in China via the Silk Road after 3,500 years of human-leopard cat commensalism

https://www.cell.com/cell-genomics/fulltext/S2666-979X(25)00...