The story of how the Ancient goddess, Bastet, went from "fierce lion" to "fluffy cat" will help you understand the true majesty of your own felines. The post How Bastet, Warrior Goddess of ...

Southeast of the modern Egyptian city of Zagazig are the red granite ruins of a city sacred to the followers of the cat goddess Bastet.She was worshipped for thousands of years in ancient Egypt ...

An Egyptian goddess with the grace of a feline but the fierceness of a lioness. One of the most important and beloved deities in the Egyptian pantheon, revered for her many qualities, including ...

Egyptian archaeologists unearthed the remains of an ancient Greek temple dedicated to Egyptian cat goddess Bastet in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, the antiquities department said Tuesday ...

A sleek, proud bronze created in honor of the Egyptian goddess Bastet, “Cat” has lived at least six of her nine lives already. She was born between 664 and 332 BC, during Egypt’s Saite dynasty. A ...

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 ...

Temples dedicated to Egyptian goddess Bastet have been found around vast ancient arable lands. Vishwam Sankaran. Sunday 27 April 2025 16:26 BST.

Amongst the discoveries found on May 30, 2022 there we many statuettes and figurines depicting cats and Egyptian deities. This included a cache of 150 bronze statues depicting various gods and ...

Bastet’s essential transformation, which Historia says took place around 3,000 years ago, saw the gentle warrior goddess go from woman with the head of a lioness to full-blown domesticated cat.