If you've ever thought that people nowadays are a bit obsessed with cats, allow me to (re)introduce you to ancient Egyptian culture. Cats are reverently depicted throughout thousands of years of ...
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 ...
Cats’ personalities have made them internet stars today. In ancient Egypt, cats were associated with divinities, as revealed in Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt. Cat coffins and representations ...
Despite the ubiquity of cats in modern homes, we still don't know many details about the timing and routes of early cat ...
Will “The Prince of Egypt,” DreamWorks’ animated version of “The Ten Commandments,” finally be the film that challenges Disney’s blessed reign as the ultimate animators? God knows. But then again God ...
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Cats may have been domesticated much later than we thought — with earlier felines being eaten or made into clothes
The origins of domestic cats, and their travels with ancient humans, are as enigmatic as the animals themselves. But now, scientists have found new evidence supporting the idea that the unfathomable ...
Twenty-five years ago, DreamWorks’ movie The Prince of Egypt hit theaters. Its release could have changed American animation — and maybe should have. But it didn’t. Instead, out of the DreamWorks ...
Clues from ancient texts guided European archaeologists in their long search for Bubastis, sacred to the Egyptian cat goddess Bastet. Copper statue of the cat goddess Bastet. Eighth to fourth ...
Statues of cats and seven sarcophagi, some dating back more than 6,000 years, have been discovered at a site on the edge of the pyramid complex in Saqqara, south of the Egyptian capital Cairo, ...
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