The sun and the moon, in the timeless stone we'd carve. Great statues, such forms, we revere, we adore, The ancient Egyptian gods. Thoth was often shown with the head of a baboon or an ibis (a ...

Bastet, the Egyptian goddess of motherhood and fertility ... traces its origins all the way back to ancient Egypt. Cats have been treasured in Egypt for millennia, and they're still beloved ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a collection of mummified cats ... ancient Egypt's capital for 2,000 years. Scarabs also held religious significance and could symbolise the sun god ...

In the study, researchers extracted mitochondrial DNA (which is passed down the maternal line) from more than 200 ancient cat remains that came from Viking graves, Egyptian mummies and Stone Age ...