Today, dozens of intact mummies of any species are a relatively rare find for archaeologists, but mummifying cats and other animals was a common practice in Egypt for thousands of years. The Saqqara ...

An ancient Egyptian mummified cat thought to be a single creature was actually made up of body parts from several different felines, and had a textile ball in place of the head, scientists in France ...

Ancient Egyptians were serious cat people, if a discovery in a tomb near Cairo is any indication. On Saturday, Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities announced that a team of archaeologists had uncovered ...