Egyptian mythology has a lot of gods. Some of them have loomed large ... When she wasn’t a cat, she was a woman with a cat head. And a headdress of scorpion tales or snakes.

Clues from ancient texts guided European archaeologists in their long search for Bubastis, sacred to the Egyptian cat goddess Bastet ... Representations of the cat-headed deity became common ...

many of them sporting anthropomorphized animal features like the aforementioned cat-headed goddess Bastet. There are dozens of ancient Egyptian deities to choose from, but we picked the ones that ...

The Saqqara cats, like millions of others ... mass sacrifice to the protective goddess Bastet, who often appears in Egyptian art as a woman with the head of a lioness or, after about 1000 BCE ...

The temple was filled with statues of Bastet, a once fearsome lion-headed goddess whose image changed over time to a domesticated cat Archaeologists in Egypt ... For thousands of years the Egyptian ...

Bastetodon was named for the cat-headed Egyptian goddess Bastet, who symbolized protection, pleasure, and good health. It was also an acknowledgment of its cat-like snout and the region where the ...