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

The oldest representation of the night sky and our Milky Way galaxy was found in an Egyptian sarcophagus, revealing ancient ...

Two studies of ancient felines find that cats were likely domesticated in Egypt or other regions in North Africa — and moved into Europe with humans much later than previously believed.

When curator of Egyptian archaeology Nir Or Lev ... “And yes, there are cat mummies, and there’s a cat goddess. But there are also dog mummies. In fact, there’s a site where eight million ...

Nut’s cosmological vignette on the outer coffin of Nesitaudjatakhet in the collection of Odessa Archaeological Museum OAM 52976 (C107). Nut’s body is covered in stars as well as a thick ...

That’s when depictions of the Egyptian goddess Bastet began ... but they also revered them as companions of the goddess Freyja. White cat fur, a symbol of her blessing, was prized enough to ...

But that idea was shaken by the discovery of a more-than 9,000-year-old grave on the island of Cyprus, where a cat was buried alongside a human. The age of the burial predates any known Egyptian ...

Lions have long been symbols of royalty ... the lion goddess, who was also Hathor, the cow goddess. Around 3,500 years ago, artworks show the Egyptian pharaoh riding horse-drawn chariots while ...

Many pet owners may treat their cats as royalty, but the ancient Egyptians went one step further: They looked to felines as symbols ... an Egyptian goddess often depicted as a cat.

It is a symbol of the primordial ... Evans tentatively linked the snake goddess with the Egyptian snake goddess, Wadjet, but did not pursue this connection. Statuettes similar to the “snake goddess” ...

Titled La Grande Dame (The Cat Woman ... symbol of female power and potential, reappears on the La Grande Dame’s back hovering between a dandelion figure and a wolf-like goddess.

Its collection includes everything from whimsical cat sculptures to a 600 BC bronze statue of the Egyptian cat goddess Bastet ... Egyptians had for cats as symbols of protection and fertility.