A sleek, proud bronze created in honor of the Egyptian goddess Bastet, “Cat” has lived at least six of her nine lives already. She was born between 664 and 332 BC, during Egypt’s Saite dynasty. A ...

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 200 visitors to ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Buried deep within this ancient Egyptian tomb are dozens of mummies. Mummies of cats. Cat mummies ...

Egyptian cats’ dominance could mean that something special made them especially attractive to ancient people, Geigl and Grange say.

The mystery of how cats went from wild animals to domesticated pets may have been solved by a team of researchers who have extracted DNA from mummified cats found in Ancient Egyptian tombs.