In Ancient Egypt, women held significant roles and enjoyed legal rights such as property ownership and equality in court. Widows gained additional freedoms, including land transactions and the ability ...

An Egyptian goddess with the grace of a feline but the fierceness of a lioness. One of the most important and beloved deities ...

Depictions on ancient Egyptian coffins and tombs suggest a link between the sky goddess Nut and the Milky Way. A recent study led by an astronomer sheds new light on this connection. Depiction of the ...

The goddess Bastet, initially depicted as a fierce lioness, eventually evolved into a more domesticated cat goddess associated with ... their eyebrows as a sign of mourning. Egyptian cats weren’t ...

When curator of Egyptian archaeology Nir Or Lev ... “And yes, there are cat mummies, and there’s a cat goddess. But there are also dog mummies. In fact, there’s a site where eight million ...

That’s when depictions of the Egyptian goddess Bastet began ... but they also revered them as companions of the goddess Freyja. White cat fur, a symbol of her blessing, was prized enough to ...

Many pet owners may treat their cats as royalty, but the ancient Egyptians went one step further: They looked to felines as symbols ... an Egyptian goddess often depicted as a cat.

It is a symbol of the primordial ... Evans tentatively linked the snake goddess with the Egyptian snake goddess, Wadjet, but did not pursue this connection. Statuettes similar to the “snake goddess” ...

Titled La Grande Dame (The Cat Woman ... symbol of female power and potential, reappears on the La Grande Dame’s back hovering between a dandelion figure and a wolf-like goddess.

Bastet, the Egyptian goddess of motherhood and fertility, famously sported a feline face. Even today, one of the oldest domesticated cat breeds ... of the most enduring symbols of ancient Egyptian ...

Its collection includes everything from whimsical cat sculptures to a 600 BC bronze statue of the Egyptian cat goddess Bastet ... Egyptians had for cats as symbols of protection and fertility.