Research suggests cat sacrifices in Egypt may have helped shape the tameness of today’s house cats, reshaping the history of ...

These animals weren’t merely part of daily life, they were woven into stories, prayed to in the temples, and casted as immortal beings in art ... linked to the goddess Bastet.

With its gloriously colourful and wonky beamed houses, including more than 300 listed buildings, Lavenham is frequently described as Britain’s best-preserved medieval village. It's on our doorstep but ...

They filled the house with art and artefacts collected during their ... Museum’s famous Gayer-Anderson cat representing the goddess Bastet. Outside, you can wander through a knot-garden and ...

Just as cats defended the home, Bastet defended Egypt itself. Additionally, she was a goddess of childbirth and ... depicted in art, and cared for in society. Dogs and cats were, just as in ...

The trove includes many individual works of art, from the gilded portrait mask ... dedicated to the cat goddess Bastet, that had been cut into limestone cliffs near the site’s eastern boundary ...

The goddess Bastet, depicted as a lioness or a woman with a lion’s ... In Assyrian culture, the lion was a symbol of royalty, power, and valor, often seen in art and architecture. The Babylonian ...

Saheem Ali’s musical, about the goddess of music finding refuge and love at an Afro-jazz club in Mombasa, Kenya, has been ...

In exploring various cultures’ Milky Way mythologies, Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced ...