Bastet, the Egyptian goddess of motherhood and fertility, famously sported a feline face. Even today, one of the oldest domesticated cat breeds in the world, the Egyptian Mau, traces its origins ...

Bastet Goddess, originally a fierce lioness warrior goddess of sun worshiped throughout most of ancient Egyptian history. Later she became the cat goddess that is familiar today.

Archaeologists say the Egyptian goddess of protection, pleasure, and good health, was first depicted with a lion’s head, but around the first millennium BC she became to be represented with the ...

Reuters. A cat visitor prepares to have its photo taken in front of a statue depicting the cat goddess Bastet at Shanghai Museum's "Meow Night", in Shanghai, China, August 31, 2024.

The trove was found at Saqqara's "Cemetery of Ancient Animals," a temple complex outside Cairo once dubbed "Bubasteion" — a reference to the ancient Egyptian goddess Bast or Bastet, who was ...

An ancient Egyptian burial ground has been unearthed with around 20 tombs kitted out with golden treasures including a gold foil statue of a cat goddess. The group of tombs were discovered by ...

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 to ...

Inspired ancient Egyptians’ worship of Bastet, the goddess of protection — often depicted as a cat — the museum has given cats the chance to interact with part of the exhibition called ...

Other foils seemed to represent Bastet, a cat goddess, and the falcon-headed god Horus. "It is quite clear in contemporary religious texts that the Egyptian gods were thought [to] have flesh of ...

The foils were designed to take the shape of Ancient Egyptian gods, such as Isis, who was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion and was considered the divine mother of the pharaoh.