The 'On Top of the Pyramid' exhibition includes over 1,000 items, where guests can view ancient Egyptian artifacts, including those recovered from Bastet's temple in Saqqara, reports mentalfloss.com.

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.

Bastet, the Egyptian goddess of motherhood and fertility, famously sported a feline face. Even today, one of the oldest domesticated cat breeds in the world, the Egyptian Mau, traces its origins ...

The Saqqara cats, like millions of others throughout Egyptian history, would have been bred and raised for eventual mass sacrifice to the protective goddess Bastet, who often appears in Egyptian ...

In Egyptian mythology, gods and goddesses could transform into animals, but only one, Bastet, goddess of home and fertility, was believed to be able to take on the form of a cat.

Of the many Egyptian deities, Bastet—the goddess of cats and daughter of the sun god Re—is one of the most recognizable. Her existence proves that felines were revered in Ancient Egypt.

Cats’ personalities have made them internet stars today. In ancient Egypt, cats were associated with divinities, as revealed in Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt.Cat coffins and representations of ...

Art World Here Are Some of Our Favorite ‘Childless Cat Ladies’ of Art History. Cats and women have been linked in visual culture since Ancient Egypt.

A sleek, proud bronze created in honor of the Egyptian goddess Bastet, “Cat” has lived at least six of her nine lives already. She was born between 664 and 332 BC, during Egypt’s Saite dynasty. A ...

Archaeologists discover secret behind why we keep cats as pets. Temples dedicated to Egyptian goddess Bastet have been found around vast ancient arable lands ...

Three years later, the ministry announced the uncovering of 20 tombs that held a trove of gold foil figures that depicted Egyptian deities such as Bastet, the goddess who often took the form of a ...

A feline history, from Bastet to royal Persians In his delightful new book, B.N. Goswamy strays from the world of Indian art to explore the place accorded to cats in our society ...