The red granite ruins of the Temple of Bastet lie near the outskirts of the modern city of Zagazig in the eastern Nile Delta. Photograph by Jim Henderson/Alamy/ACI After declining and falling into ...

January 21, 2010—This limestone feline is among some 600 cat statues from a newfound temple dedicated to the Egyptian cat goddess Bastet. The ancient temple was recently discovered under the ...

The temple was filled with statues of Bastet, a once fearsome lion-headed goddess whose image changed over time to a domesticated cat Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 2,000-year-old temple in ...

There, they could view Ancient Egyptian artifacts, including those recovered from Bastet’s temple in Saqqara. Guests flocked to Meowseum Nights with their cats in tow. Though the event only ...

Bastet was the cat-goddess of Bubastis in the ... In the Late Period her popularity was so great that worshippers flocked to her temple for the annual festival held in her honour.

Two thousand years ago, an Egyptian purchased a mummified kitten from a breeder, to offer as a sacrifice to the goddess Bastet, new research suggests. Between about 332 B.C. and 30 B.C. in Egypt ...

Inspired ancient Egyptians' worship of Bastet, the goddess of protection ... "Egyptian archaeological teams discovered a cat temple in Saqqara and unearthed many cat mummies and cat statues.