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Domestic cats have shared our homes for millennia, but their origins remain mysterious. Two recent studies propose a new lead ...

Two studies of ancient felines find that cats were likely domesticated in Egypt or other regions in North Africa — and moved ...

A linen-wrapped cat mummy from ancient Egypt was created as an offering to the goddesses Bastet and Sekhmet. Credit: Gary Todd / Public domain Historians estimate that millions of cats were mummified; ...

Mummified cat on display at the Louvre ... while chickens were associated with Mercury and Mithras," write Doherty and team. "The Egyptian goddess Bastet … first appeared in the 3rd millennium BCE ...

Several mummified cat remains and deities like the Egyptian goddess Bastet suggest that the furry felines and humans lived alongside each other in the region. However, the exact circumstances ...

Image via Unsplash. The turning point in the cat’s story appears to come in the first millennium BCE. That’s when depictions of the Egyptian goddess Bastet began to shift. Once shown with a ...

Egyptian cat mummies dating from 500 to 0 B.C.E. remain the oldest ... In ancient Egypt, people worshipped Bastet, a goddess often depicted with feline features. Mummified cats were common ritual ...

I can't lie - I am completely obsessed with this new addition. Say hello to Bastet, a female sand cat, who has joined the zoo from her previous home at the Kansas City Zoo. According to this post, ...

It was a good overlap of Egyptian and Chinese society.” The show includes the Bastet temple, devoted to a cat goddess. “Much of the show has to do with cats,” Chu says. “Ancient Egypt had ...