The macabre world of ancient Egyptian ritual sacrifice may have contributed to the domestication of cats, new research suggests. Mummified cats (Felis catus) were such a common offering to the ...

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Archaeologists and historians have known for decades that ancient Egyptians worshipped cats, but recent research has proven that the Pharaohs had an even more significant impact on the species than ...

Join Andrew as he takes viewers to look at a peculiar item in the Dr. Gabriel Manigault Collection at the Charleston Museum: a bronze cat case from Ancient Egypt's Ptolemaic period which once ...

SHANGHAI, Sept 1 - 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 ...

A recent discovery of cat bones in a grave, which also contained other animals, shows evidence that cats were first domesticated in ancient Egypt around 5,700 years ago. Belgium researcher Veerle ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists are gaining new insight into the ancient Egyptian practice of mummifying animals, using high-resolution 3D scans to peer inside mummies of a cat, a bird and a snake ...

Ancient Egypt had plenty of impressive things going on: pyramids, temples, hieroglyphs, mummies, powerful pharaohs, and a calendar full of gods. Yet one of the most charming details about Egyptian ...