If internet cat videos and memes are any indication, people today are as obsessed with cats as the ancient Egyptians were. Now in Atlanta after a stint at the Brooklyn Museum, "Divine Felines: Cats of ...
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Buried deep within this ancient Egyptian tomb are dozens of mummies. Mummies of cats. Cat mummies.
Our perceptions of the ancient world are shaped by the way surviving relics appear in the present day. The cool white marble beauty we attribute to Classical Greek and Roman statues arises from the ...
Today, dozens of intact mummies of any species are a relatively rare find for archaeologists, but mummifying cats and other animals was a common practice in Egypt for thousands of years. The Saqqara ...
The bond between feline and humanity has been traced back to the land of the pharoahs THEY often have a funny way of showing their affection, but domestic cats may owe their love of curling up on ...
A DIGITALLY dissected cat mummy shocked scholars when they found out it had three tails and five hind legs. The 2,500-year-old mummified Egyptian cat was scanned and reconstructed in 3D but the ...
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 ...