Many wealthy families went so far as to mummify their cats so they could join their humans in the afterlife. Bastet, the ...

In Bubastis, a city dedicated to the cat headed Egyptian goddess Bastet, a Roman was hanged for ... appearing to his disciples in the form of a black cat whose rear end they were required to ...

Some of the artifacts on display are connected to a temple found several years ago in Saqqara dedicated to Bastet, an Egyptian goddess often depicted as a cat. “Egyptian archaeological teams ...