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 ...

Also in the tomb were 100 gilded wooden cat statues, as well as a bronze statue of Bastet, the goddess of cats. The discoveries were made at a newly discovered tomb in Saqqara, the site of a ...

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 ...

This included a cache of 150 bronze statues depicting various gods and goddesses including Bastet, Anubis, Osiris, Amunmeen, Isis, Nefertum and Hathor. (Image credit: Photo by KHALED DESOUKI/AFP ...

Item 1 of 5 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.

An ancient temple filled with about 600 cat statues was built for the goddess Bastet by Queen Berenike II, say archaeologists who found the ruins under modern-day Alexandria.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle opens with a thrown-down in the ancient civilizations room of your favorite archaeologist's place of work, which is somewhat disturbing for the exhibits.

A bronze statue showing Bastet, an Egyptian goddess in the shape of a cat, was discovered along with the cat statues. The goddess statue is shown in the foreground of this photo along with some of ...

The temple was filled with statues of Bastet, a once fearsome lion-headed goddess whose image changed over time to a domesticated cat Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 2,000-year-old temple in ...

A team of scientists have discovered a new species of ancient creature, from a 30-million-year-old skull buried in the Egyptian desert ...

Bastet is considered a symbol of tenderness and gentleness, as she was closely associated with the woman. He pointed out that the ancient Egyptian people domesticated cats and raised them in homes.