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 ...

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 ...

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.

Some animal burials were found there, and the workshop may have been used to mummify animals associated with Bastet, an ancient Egyptian goddess ... according to the hieroglyph inscriptions ...

Bastet, the Egyptian goddess of motherhood and fertility, famously sported a feline face. Even today, one of the oldest ...

Several mummified cat remains and deities like the Egyptian goddess Bastet suggest that the furry felines and humans lived alongside each other in the region. However, the exact circumstances ...

Bastetodon was named for the cat-headed Egyptian goddess Bastet, who symbolized protection, pleasure, and good health. It was also an acknowledgment of its cat-like snout and the region where the ...

who was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion and was considered the divine mother of the pharaoh. Other foils seemed to represent Bastet, a cat goddess, and the falcon-headed god Horus.

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 ...