January 21, 2010—This limestone feline is among some 600 cat statues from a newfound temple dedicated to the Egyptian cat goddess Bastet. The ancient temple was recently discovered under the ...

The red granite ruins of the Temple of Bastet lie near the outskirts of the modern city of Zagazig in the eastern Nile Delta. Photograph by Jim Henderson/Alamy/ACI After declining and falling into ...

The temple was filled with statues of Bastet, a once fearsome lion-headed goddess whose image changed over time to a domesticated cat Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 2,000-year-old temple in ...

Egypt said Tuesday that its archaeologists have unearthed a Ptolemaic-era temple dating back more than 2,000 years, that may have been dedicated to the ancient cat goddess, Bastet. The Supreme ...

The finding was announced on Saturday at the Bastet Temple, named after the lion-headed goddess – a place dedicated mainly to the worship of cats among the ancient populous. Mummified cats ...

The large collection of Bastet statues indicates that the temple was dedicated to her. The Bastet statues were unearthed in three different areas of the site, alongside other limestone statues of ...

There, they could view Ancient Egyptian artifacts, including those recovered from Bastet’s temple in Saqqara. Guests flocked to Meowseum Nights with their cats in tow. Though the event only ...