Also in the tomb were 100 gilded wooden cat statues, as well as a bronze statue of Bastet, the goddess of cats. The discoveries were made at a newly discovered tomb in Saqqara, the site of a ...

When I announce that I’m not really a pet person (and especially that I don’t particularly want a dog), people stare at me like I’m a criminal. But at least I’m not as vicious as the world’s first cat ...

Clues from ancient texts guided European archaeologists in their long search for Bubastis, sacred to the Egyptian cat goddess Bastet. Copper statue of the cat goddess Bastet. Eighth to fourth ...

Shorouq Al-Ashqar, the lead study author, with the Bastetodon syrtos skull and a Bastet statue. Credit: Professor Hesham Sallam Once upon a time, some 30 million years ago, what is now Egypt’s Western ...

An ancient temple filled with about 600 cat statues was built for the goddess Bastet by Queen Berenike II, say archaeologists who found the ruins under modern-day Alexandria.

Shanghai Museum has pulled in crowds this summer for an exhibition of ancient Egyptian relics including cat statues and other feline imagery, and which on Saturday nights allows up to 200 visitors ...

Inspired by ancient Egyptians' worship of Bastet, the deity of protection – often depicted as a cat – the museum has given cats the chance to interact with part of the exhibition called "The Secrets ...

Along with the mummified cats and scarabs, the Saqqara tombs contained more than a hundred gilded wooden cat statues and one of solid bronze, all dedicated to Bastet, as well as gilded statues of ...

A divine power, Bastet represented fertility, family, good health, and humanity. Bastet statues made of bronze or wood were often left at temples of Bastet as offerings to the gods.

A bronze statue showing Bastet, an Egyptian goddess in the shape of a cat, was discovered along with the cat statues. The goddess statue is shown in the foreground of this photo along with some of ...

Bastet is standing near a map showing the location of Bubasteion in Egypt. The latest find at the Bubasteion necropolis included 5 lions amongst a collection of wood and bronze statues as well as ...

Egypt's ambassador to Canada Ahmed Abu-Zeid received on Tuesday a bronze statue of the goddess Bastet dating back to ancient Egyptian civilization, as part of a small ceremony at the ambassador's ...