Several mummified cat remains and deities like the Egyptian goddess Bastet suggest that the furry felines and humans lived ...

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

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

In ancient Egypt, mass cult ritual sacrifices of cats gave rise to the furry felines becoming human companions, according to ...

New research has overturned everything we thought we knew about cat domestication. Forget the theory that cats simply ...

By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...

Animals have played roles that go far beyond their presence in the natural world since the times of ancient civilisations to ...

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

Here are some animals that were considered divine and were prayed to in the ancient times In ancient Egypt, cats were far ... beings linked to the goddess Bastet. Cats were believed to ward ...

Working with an Egyptian team, including Youssef, the site director, Waziri chose to excavate near a mysterious temple called the Bubasteion, dedicated to the cat goddess Bastet, that had been cut ...