This story originally appeared on Spotlight PA. Before cats ruled the internet, the felines ran the battlefield. At least, that’s history as told by Gettysburg’s Civil War Tails at the Homestead ...

However, a cat figurine he sculpted two months ago may be the exception. While it seems funny, the story behind it is actually no laughing matter.

Paint the blank Huishan clay figurine "Da A Fu" (Great Blessing) giving it some life, and post your creation with #ColorAFu on Facebook or Twitter by March 21, 2016.

International Cat Salon. Through Saturday, May 17, at Gato Gordo Gallery, 4600 NW Seventh Ave., Miami; 917-494-0862; gatogordogallery.art.

Lauren E. Talalay, Rethinking the Function of Clay Figurine Legs from Neolithic Greece: An Argument by Analogy, American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 91, No. 2 (Apr., 1987), pp. 161-169 ...

Archaeologists and students in Israel have discovered a clay figurine of a seated person appearing to be in deep thought. The statuette is 3,800 years old and is seated on top of a ceramic vessel.