Discover the history of our feline friends, and learn about the debate over whether cats are really "domesticated" at all.

Ancient Egyptian astrology signs connect individuals to gods and deities, shaping characteristics and life paths.

Archaeologists recently unearthed an impressive mining complex dating back 3,000 years, which had been used to extract gold and pulverize and filter quartz.

A section of the ancient mining camp found at Sukari ... Archaeologists identified the partial figures as Bastet, an Egyptian deity who often took the form of a cat, and Harpocrates, another ...

FLORA LICHTMAN: What name did you give this fossil? SHOROUQ AL-ASHQAR: Bastetodon. Bastetodon We named it after the cat-headed goddess Bastet in our ancient Egyptian history. It’s like the symbol of ...

The team named the new genus Bastetodon partly in reference to the cat-headed ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet, in honor of where the specimen was unearthed and of the feline-like snout of the ...

Cat coffins and representations of the cat-headed goddess Bastet are among the extraordinary objects that reveal felines’ critical role in ancient Egyptian religious, social, and political life.

A new study found that one crocodile's mummification began "very rapidly after the death," which was caused by blunt force ...

Khaled said that the find furthers our understanding of ancient Egyptians mining techniques ... small stone statues of deities such as Bastet and Harpocrates (some finished and some unfinished ...

The ostraca were written in hieroglyphic scripts, along with Egyptian demotic and Greek. Ancient Roman Helmet Turns ... some incomplete, of Bastet and Harpocrates, as well as five offering tables ...