duncan1890 / Getty Images Egyptian gods and goddesses were an essential part of ancient ... The moral of the story is that ...

Of the many Egyptian deities, Bastet—the goddess of cats and daughter of the sun god Re—is one of the most recognizable. Her ...

Bastet, the Egyptian goddess of motherhood and fertility, famously sported a feline face. Even today, one of the oldest ...

In Bubastis, a city dedicated to the cat headed Egyptian goddess Bastet, a Roman was hanged for this very crime. He was part of a delegation to negotiate a treaty of friendship with the Pharaoh ...

Cat coffins and representations of the cat-headed goddess Bastet are among the extraordinary objects that reveal felines’ critical role in ancient Egyptian religious, social, and political life.