Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An extensive collection of 75 wooden and bronze statues of cats of different shapes and sizes are displayed in Saqqara, south Giza ...

Many Ancient Egyptian deities were represented by animals. For example, Horus, the god of kingship and the sky, is represented by a falcon, and Anubis, the god of embalming, is represented by a jackal ...

Zoolatry has roots in several cultures, but perhaps the most well-known is ancient Egypt. Ancient Egyptian animals and their meanings have continued to be prevalent today, even if zoolatry is less ...

Egypt unveiled what it described as a "one of a kind" cache that contained hundreds of statues and mummified animals. This discovery also included the "biggest scarab in the world" as well as mummies ...

Excavators working at Tel Kom Aziza in Egypt’s Nile Delta have identified the deliberate burial of a wild boar, an animal whose remains are exceptionally rare in Egyptian archaeological contexts. The ...

Egypt has unveiled an unprecedented discovery of dozens of mummified sacred animals, including cats, crocodiles and two lion cubs, found during the excavation of a tomb of a royal priest. Khaled ...

Cat Mummy (Third Intermediate Period to Late Period, 780–390 BCE) and ibis mummy from the ibis cemetery at Abydos (Early Roman Period, 30 BCE–early 1st century CE) in ‘Soulful Creatures: Animal ...

The contents of six sealed ancient Egyptian animal coffins—which were imaged using a non-invasive technique—are described in a new study published in Scientific Reports. The mummification of animals ...

Karim Hegazi spends his days at an Egyptian clinic taking care of animals long considered troublesome in the country: street dogs. Stray – or wild – dogs can be found in almost every neighborhood in ...