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.
说到对奇异物种的迷恋，古埃及人大概算是最早的。在耶拉孔波利斯(Hierakonpolis)（前4千纪尼罗河畔一个繁荣城市）遗留下来的一个墓地工作的考古学家们，发现了足以组成一个动物园的动物骨骼，包括狒狒、河马、豹子、大象和鳄鱼。它们并非娇生惯养的宠物；遗骸上显现出因殴打导致的疤痕和因被捆绑而断裂的骨骼。
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