The Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt announced that archaeologists unearthed a 2,000-year-old temple that was ...

Bastet, the Egyptian goddess of motherhood and fertility, famously sported a feline face. Even today, one of the oldest domesticated cat breeds in the world, the Egyptian Mau, traces its origins ...

If you think your moggy at home demands attention, they’ve got nothing on Bastet, the Egyptian cat goddess. The extremely popular deity was originally depicted as a wild cat, but later on when ...

In Bubastis, a city dedicated to the cat headed Egyptian goddess Bastet, a Roman was hanged for this very crime. He was part of a delegation to negotiate a treaty of friendship with the Pharaoh ...

after the cat-headed ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet, who symbolizes protection, pleasure, and good health. The researchers also compared the fossil to that of another lion-sized species of ...