Publications concerning the early worldwide history of the domestic cat (Felis catus, also known as Felis domesticus) normally concentrate on ancient Egypt. All the evidence now indicates that the domestic species evolved in Egypt, entirely or at least principally from the North African wildcat, F. silvestris libyca; one authority suggests that there was also some admixture of the Jungle Cat (F. chaus), another small, wild felid frequently shown in ancient Egyptian art. The role of the domestic cat in the Graeco-Roman world tends to be treated somewhat sketchily in general books, since the literary and archaeological evidence for the spread of domestic cats from Egypt in antiquity is very slight, but two important recent volumes have attempted to redress the balance by examining this scanty evidence in detail.