Colleen Brown says her two cats usually draw the same reaction from everyone they meet: "That's not an ordinary cat." Her cats, Cleopatra and Misty, look like they belong in a jungle rather than in ...

Peru’s Ministry of Culture shared some purrfect news recently: archaeologists working at the Nazca Lines site discovered a giant drawing of a cat. We spotted the news at Gizmodo. Yes, people were ...

CAIRO — 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 ...

The macabre world of ancient Egyptian ritual sacrifice may have contributed to the domestication of cats, new research suggests. Mummified cats (Felis catus) were such a common offering to the ...

CAIRO, Egypt — In the times of the ancient pharoahs, the cat was almost an equal of the gods. Pilgrims would place mummified cats around statues of cat-headed goddess Bastet, along with written ...

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 ...

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 ...