Bastet, the Egyptian goddess of motherhood and fertility, famously sported a feline face. Even today, one of the oldest domesticated cat breeds in the world, the Egyptian Mau, traces its origins ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

Once technicians at a Grand Rapids hospital had CAT-scanned the remains of Nakhte-Bastet-Iru and the disembodied head (known as Boris), specialists in Detroit plugged the data into a "selective ...

With its spotted coat and large green eyes, the Egyptian Mau looks like a miniature jungle cat. Here are six facts about the exotic-looking feline. 1. The Egyptian Mau might not actually be from ...

This Ancient Egyptian bronze statue from the Ptolemaic era once contained a mummified cat!

Archaeologists have unearthed a trove of artifacts at the necropolis of Saqqara near Cairo, including 250 complete mummies in painted sarcophagi and more than 100 bronze statues of ancient ...

What has the body of a dog, the face of a cat and jaws powerful enough to potentially crush the bones of an elephant? Meet the Bastetodon, a newly discovered species of apex predator that roamed ...

Archeologists and graphics experts have recreated the facial features of one of Egypt's most significant pharaohs, Amenhotep I, who ruled during the 18th Dynasty around 1,500 BCE, or 3,500 years ago.

The Egyptian man Abu Noah, who was nicknamed "cat slaughterer," shared pictures of dead animals, especially cats, in one of the photos, some cats were seen hanged, while in another a cat that was ...

SHANGHAI - 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 to ...