Recently, butlers to orange-colored cats got a bit of a shock when reading the news, as headlines began to call out their ...

A museum is like an iceberg. Most of it is out of sight. Most big collections have only a fraction of their items on display, with the rest locked away in storage. But not at the new ...

Nepeta, the highly aromatic and pretty perennial beloved of so many country gardens, may be your feline’s favourite fix, but we should be wary of its root, warns Deborah Nicholls-Lee ...

From the tombs of pharaohs to Roman frescoes, Egyptian blue adorned everything from sacred artifacts to everyday pottery.

The Egyptians treated them with reverence and adoration having, first domesticated them 4,000 years ago. Since then the small ...

Scientists at Washington State University not only discovered how to recreate the color known as "Egyptian Blue," they also ...

The Brazilian archaeologist who discovered hundreds of prehistoric cave paintings in northeastern Brazil has died.

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

Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses I sat longer at Emory University than he did on the throne. His presumptive remains now lay encased in glass at Egypt’s Luxor Museum, a simple cloth draped from his ...

"One idea is to study ancient Egyptian cat paintings—or even to test DNA from mummified cats—to see if any cats back then were orange," Sasaki said. "It's ambitious, but I’m excited to try." ...

"One idea is to study ancient Egyptian cat paintings—or even to test DNA from mummified cats—to see if any cats back then were orange," he says. "It's ambitious, but I'm excited to try." ...

“One idea is to study ancient Egyptian cat paintings – or even to test DNA from mummified cats – to see if any cats back then were orange,” said Sasaki. “It’s ambitious, but I’m ...