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 streets of ...

Inspired ancient Egyptians' worship of Bastet, the goddess ... up here. "Egyptian archaeological teams discovered a cat temple in Saqqara and unearthed many cat mummies and cat statues.

The more archaeologists continue to explore the tombs of ancient Egypt ... tomb were 100 gilded wooden cat statues, as well as a bronze statue of Bastet, the goddess of cats.

Egyptian Ministry of AntiquitiesA large mummified cat ... the goddess of war. In terms of animal statues, the rest consisted of bulls, mongooses, ibis, falcons, and the ancient Egyptian god ...

The Saqqara cats, like millions of others throughout Egyptian history, would have been bred and raised for eventual mass sacrifice to the protective goddess ... of ancient Egyptian cat mummies ...

many of them sporting anthropomorphized animal features like the aforementioned cat-headed goddess Bastet. There are dozens of ancient Egyptian deities to choose from, but we picked the ones that ...

or in the form that is familiar to us from the numerous Late-Period statues of her, that of a lissom and majestic queen cat. Although a virgin goddess she was nevertheless the mother of a son ...

A trove of ancient artifacts was revealed by Egyptian archaeologists this week and includes 150 bronze statues and 250 coffins ... Do You Think Your Cat Is Related to the Royal Cats of Ancient ...

A large trove of ancient bronze statues and well-preserved sarcophagi discovered in Egypt’s Saqqara were revealed to the public on Monday, the Egyptian ... rituals for the goddess of fertility ...

Zahi Hawass, a former Egyptian minister of tourism and antiquities ... unearthed a statue of a king wearing a headdress, as well as oil lamps, a bronze ring honoring the sky goddess Hathor ...

Great statues, such forms, we revere, we adore, The ancient Egyptian gods ... Sekhmet was a warrior goddess and a goddess of healing. People believed she protected the pharaohs when they went ...