Ancient Egypt is well known to have been ... Excavations have also found that the temples and sanctuaries dedicated to Bastet are situated around vast ancient agricultural landscapes.

Eventually, some ancient Egyptians likely welcomed the cats home as adorable pet companions, they say. The domestication and spread of animals driven by cults is not uncommon. For instance, previous ...

Working with an Egyptian team, including Youssef, the site director, Waziri chose to excavate near a mysterious temple called the Bubasteion, dedicated to the cat goddess Bastet, that had been cut ...

Archaeologists have discovered ancient tombs and Egypt’s first known temple school, the "House of Life," at Luxor’s Ramseum ...

But archaeologists recently found themselves more interested in the temple’s surroundings — and for good reason. Their excavations unearthed several 2,500-year-old tombs with hundreds of treasures. A ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

Archaeologists excavating an area near Ramesseum Temple found several ancient tombs ... A joint team of Egyptian and French archaeologists returned to the Ramesseum for their 34th year of work ...