While it is common to see cats in modern households, cats are among the most recently domesticated animals. Archaeological ...

Scientist at the University of Aberdeen are using 3D imaging software to create interactive models of mummies and other ...

Discover how today’s cats might trace their roots back to cult rituals in ancient Egypt.

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 ...

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 ...

Ancient Egypt is best known for the pyramids of Giza, the giant Sphinx, and mummies. However, the early Egyptians also left behind other ancient clues that we can use to learn about their daily ...

Egyptian mummies have always been a subject of great interest, not only from researchers and scientists, but the general population as well. In ancient Egypt, mummification was a long and complex ...

The discovery was made near the remains of a mummified adult lion, which was found underneath the Saqqara necropolis in 2004.

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 ...