A deep dive into the Egyptian gods and goddesses (their characteristics, myths, and symbols) who held significant sway over ...

A section of the ancient mining camp found at Sukari ... Archaeologists identified the partial figures as Bastet, an Egyptian deity who often took the form of a cat, and Harpocrates, another ...

The team named the new genus Bastetodon partly in reference to the cat-headed ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet, in honor of where the specimen was unearthed and of the feline-like snout of the ...

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.

FLORA LICHTMAN: What name did you give this fossil? SHOROUQ AL-ASHQAR: Bastetodon. Bastetodon We named it after the cat-headed goddess Bastet in our ancient Egyptian history. It’s like the symbol of ...