Every fossil find and genetic study tweaks what we think we know about the timeline or the circumstances under which ...

Cat Mummies Were a Big Thing in Ancient Egypt Archaelogists uncover what appear to be cat mummies–a common practice around the Ptolemaic period. But an x-ray scan reveals a surprise: the mummies ...

On one of the grandest streets in Liverpool, a strange and disturbing auction once took place that caused a national stir. In ...

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is home to cat mummies as part of our anthropology collections. Cat coffins and representations of the cat-headed goddess Bastet are among the ...

They were feline—ancient cats that had been mummified ... she adopted the Egyptian Museum's languishing collection of animal mummies as a research project. After taking precise measurements ...

Some of the cats were said to be wrapped in colourful ... In 1890, the Moss Steamship Company shipped the mummies from the Egyptian port of Alexandria to Liverpool. The cargo was so large ...