We used to think that the earliest historical evidence for domestic cats was from ancient Egypt, like art and mummified remains from around 4000 years ago.
We don't fully understand the process that causes some dinosaur skin to mummify, but the end result allows us to study the skin texture of the dinosaur.
The Liber Linteus was written on wrappings covering an Egyptian tailor's mummified wife, which is how it was discovered in the 1800s when the mummy was donated to a museum.
But small amounts of black pepper made their way to Greece, Rome, and even ancient Egypt, where peppercorns were apparently valuable enough to stuff up the mummified nose of Ramses the second.