The macabre world of ancient Egyptian ritual sacrifice may have contributed to the domestication of cats, new research ...

Eventually, some ancient Egyptians likely welcomed the cats home as adorable pet companions, they say. The domestication and ...

Research suggests cat sacrifices in Egypt may have helped shape the tameness of today’s house cats, reshaping the history of ...

Two groundbreaking studies challenge the traditional timeline of cat domestication, highlighting the pivotal influence of ...

That’s when depictions of the Egyptian goddess Bastet began to shift ... pot — perhaps a mischievous gesture that’s become an ancient artifact. By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic ...

In total, 70 low-coverage ancient cat genomes were analyzed ... In fact, around this time, the Egyptian goddess Bastet underwent a significant transformation in her iconography.

Tomb art suggests the sky goddess Nut from ancient Egypt might reveal the oldest depiction of our galaxy.

An interest in understanding the role that the Milky Way played in Egyptian culture and religion has led University of ...