Cats were honored with lavish adornments, depicted in art, and even mummified, reflecting their cherished status in Egyptian culture and the afterlife. In ancient Egypt, cats were not just pets ...

Cats were frequently depicted alongside women in ancient Egyptian art, suggesting a symbolic connection between felines and ...

In many accounts of how, when, and where cats began sharing their lives with humans, the ancient Egyptians are credited as ...

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is home to cat mummies as part of our anthropology collections. Cat coffins and representations of the cat-headed goddess Bastet are among the ...

In the study, researchers extracted mitochondrial DNA (which is passed down the maternal line) from more than 200 ancient cat remains that came from Viking graves, Egyptian mummies and Stone Age ...

Killing a cat in Ancient Egypt was not a good idea ... 3. Cats appeared in Egyptian art as early as 1980 BC. Everyday scenes in tomb paintings show them in typical cat poses.

Exhibitions in Shanghai and Suzhou, powered by the cutting-edge technologies, lead people to wander the streets in the Qin ...

Ancient Egyptians thought cats were very special. They wanted to take their cats with them into the afterlife so they often mummified them and put them in their tombs. This piece of papyrus ...