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Bastet was originally a fierce lioness warrior goddess of the sun, worshipped throughout most of ancient Egyptian history. Later she became the cat goddess that is familiar today. [10] She was then depicted as the daughter of Ra and Isis, and the consort of Ptah, with whom she had a son, Maahes.
In ancient Egypt, cats were represented in social and religious scenes dating as early as 1980 BC. [2] Several ancient Egyptian deities were depicted and sculptured with cat-like heads such as Mafdet, Bastet and Sekhmet, representing justice, fertility, and power, respectively. [3] The deity Mut was also depicted as a cat and in the company of ...
Gertrude Caton Thompson FBA (1 February 1888 – 18 April 1985) [1] was an English archaeologist at a time when participation by women in the discipline was uncommon. Much of her archaeological work was conducted in Egypt.
The sculpture is known as the Gayer-Anderson cat after major Robert Grenville Gayer-Anderson who, together with Mary Stout Shaw, donated it to the British Museum. [1] The statue is a representation of the female cat deity Bastet.
An ancient Egyptian mummy who was found wearing a black wig and had a “screaming” face may have died wailing in pain around 3,000 years ago, scientists believe.
The Berenice pet cemetery is a pet cemetery in Berenike, Egypt, dating from the 1st–2nd century CE. It contains the remains of more than 580 individual animals including cats, dogs, and monkeys. It is among the oldest known animal cemeteries in the world. Unlike other animal burials in Egypt, none of the animals at Berenike were mummified ...
She was discovered in the tomb of Senmut, an 18th Dynasty architect and overseer of royal works for queen Hatschepsut (1479-1458 BC), in Deir Elbahari near Luxor, Egypt.
The woman, in her late 20s or early 30s, lived more than 3,000 years ago and was buried with beads in a riverside tomb, researchers said.