A top Egyptian antiquities official says local archaeologists have discovered seven Pharaonic Age tombs near the capital Cairo containing dozens of cat mummies along with wooden statues depicting ...

After years of being washed, perfumed and fed in ancient Egypt, the statue of a revered Egyptian deity was given a proper burial with other "dead" statues more than 2,000 years ago, a new study finds.

Egypt has unveiled an unprecedented discovery of dozens of mummified sacred animals, including cats, crocodiles and two lion cubs, found during the excavation of a tomb of a royal priest. Khaled ...

One of the stone scarab statues uncovered during the excavation in excavated in Saqqara, south of Cairo, Egypt.AFP via Getty Images Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a rare mummy menagerie, ...

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 ...

Science Alert reports that an ancient sarcophagus has been unearthed 16 feet below ground in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. A top Egyptian antiquities official says local archaeologists have ...

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 ...

January 21, 2010—This limestone feline is among some 600 cat statues from a newfound temple dedicated to the Egyptian cat goddess Bastet. The ancient temple was recently discovered under the streets ...

The more archaeologists continue to explore the tombs of ancient Egypt, the more evidence mounts that ancient Egyptians admired cats — and loved mummifying them. Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities ...

A sleek, proud bronze created in honor of the Egyptian goddess Bastet, “Cat” has lived at least six of her nine lives already. She was born between 664 and 332 BC, during Egypt’s Saite dynasty. A ...