The Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt announced that archaeologists unearthed a 2,000-year-old temple that was ...

The team named the new genus Bastetodon partly in reference to the cat-headed ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet, in honor of where the specimen was unearthed and of the feline-like snout of the ...

This Egyptian mummified cat's head is part of ... Cats were also given in offering to the cat goddess, Bast. Bast was the deity of protection, fertility and motherhood. The presence of this ...

1. Killing a cat in Ancient Egypt was not a good idea. In Bubastis, a city dedicated to the cat headed Egyptian goddess Bastet, a Roman was hanged for this very crime. He was part of a delegation ...