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 ancient ...
The Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt announced that archaeologists unearthed a 2,000-year-old temple that was ...
A trove of ancient artifacts was revealed by Egyptian archaeologists this ... Isis, Nefertum, Bastet and Hathor. A headless statue of the architect Imhotep, who designed the Saqqara pyramid ...
Shorouq Al-Ashqar, the lead study author, with the Bastetodon syrtos skull and a Bastet statue. Credit: Professor Hesham Sallam Once upon a time, some 30 million years ago, what is now Egypt’s Western ...
Found at the Karnak Temple complex in Luxor, the 2,600-year-old trove includes a necklace depicting a golden trio of Egyptian deities ...
Photos show a few of the clay and stone statues, mostly in fragments, found at the site. Archaeologists identified the partial figures as Bastet, an Egyptian deity who often took the form of a cat ...