When it comes to the fascination with exotic species, the ancient Egyptians seem to have got there first. Archaeologists working at a cemetery in Hierakonpolis, a thriving city by the Nile in the fourth millennium BC, have uncovered a zoo’s worth of skeletons of baboons, hippopotamuses, leopards, elephants and crocodiles. These were not pampered pets; the remains reveal scars from beatings and broken bones from tethering.
說到對奇異物種的迷戀，古埃及人大概算是最早的。在耶拉孔波利斯(Hierakonpolis)（前4千紀尼羅河畔一個繁榮城市）遺留下來的一個墓地工作的考古學家們，發現了足以組成一個動物園的動物骨骼，包括狒狒、河馬、豹子、大象和鱷魚。它們并非嬌生慣養的寵物；遺骸上顯現出因毆打導致的疤痕和因被捆綁而斷裂的骨骼。
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