New Historia What do you think of New Historia’s breakdown of the Ancient Egyptian goddess, Bastet? Are you now considering a cadre of cats as your bodyguard? Are you just going to start ...

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

BLACK CAT MAGIC in Ancient Egyptian times was a serious matter. To Bastet or Bast, the Sun Goddess, cats were sacred and held in the high esteem, and in fact, there were penalties for killing or ...

January 21, 2010—This limestone feline is among some 600 cat statues from a newfound temple dedicated to the Egyptian cat goddess Bastet. The ancient temple was recently discovered under the ...

Two thousand years ago, an Egyptian purchased a mummified kitten from a breeder, to offer as a sacrifice to the goddess Bastet ... the seated cats depicted in hieroglyphics from the same era.

A 2200-year-old temple that may have been dedicated to the ancient Egyptian cat god Bastet has ... A statue of the ancient cat-goddess Bastet found among the temple's ruins in the Kom el-Dekkah ...