The story of how the Ancient goddess, Bastet, went from "fierce lion" to "fluffy cat" will help you understand the true majesty of your own felines. The post How Bastet, Warrior Goddess of ...

About Bastet Goddess: Bastet Goddess, originally a fierce lioness warrior goddess of sun worshiped throughout most of ancient Egyptian history. Later she became the cat goddess that is familiar today.

Archaeologists say the Egyptian goddess of protection, pleasure, and good health, was first depicted with a lion’s head, but around the first millennium BC she became to be represented with the ...

Southeast of the modern Egyptian city of Zagazig are the red granite ruins of a city sacred to the followers of the cat goddess Bastet.She was worshipped for thousands of years in ancient Egypt ...

Jan. 19, 2010: A carving of the ancient cat-goddess Bastet found amongst the temple's ruins in the Kom el-Dekkah area of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria.

Egypt said Tuesday that its archaeologists have unearthed a Ptolemaic-era temple dating back more than 2,000 years, that may have been dedicated to the ancient cat goddess, Bastet.

Bastet’s essential transformation, which Historia says took place around 3,000 years ago, saw the gentle warrior goddess go from woman with the head of a lioness to full-blown domesticated cat. ...