The excavation of two Egyptian tombs dating to the Roman period, between 29 B.C.E. and 641 C.E., just unveiled a wealth of ...

Researchers Unearth Partial Remains of Different Cats Inside a Mummified Feline, Virtual Images Reveal Mysterious Contents ...

Cat Mummies Were a Big Thing in Ancient Egypt Archaelogists uncover what appear to be cat mummies–a common practice around the Ptolemaic period. But an x-ray scan reveals a surprise: the mummies ...

Discover the fascinating history of cat domestication and genetic analysis results, revealing how ancient Egyptians played a ...

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is home to cat mummies as part of our anthropology collections ... objects that reveal felines’ critical role in ancient Egyptian religious, social ...

Archaeologists discovered more than a dozen mummies older than 2,000 years with tongues made from golden amulets. Ancient Egyptians’ idea behind the golden tongues was that they would help the ...

How are mummies formed? Ancient Egyptians believed in the concept of the afterlife and used a detailed process to preserve the bodies of the deceased for the afterlife. It involved the internal ...

Egyptians: the masters of mummification Ancient Egyptians are perhaps the best known mummy-makers—though initially, it was their climate, not their skill, that preserved the dead. Arid desert ...

The ancient ... Egyptian power. This was roughly two millennia after the Giza pyramids were built during the Old Kingdom period and six centuries after pharaoh Tutankhamen – whose mummy and ...

Ancient Egyptians thought cats were very special ... The seven little blue beads hanging down are made in the shape of mummies. This mummy mask is coated in gold leaf. It is a mask for a rich ...

The trove includes not just the 13 gold tongues, but a mummy with golden fingernails ... Golden tongues are rarely found in ancient Egyptian tombs, perhaps at least partially due to looting ...