Baboons sacred to the ancient Egyptians were glorified as mummies after their death, but they suffered from poor conditions when they were alive, a new study suggests. The researchers examined ...

Cats gained a sacred status through ... idea that cats were not just animals but bearers of divine favor. Cats were ...

They were feline—ancient cats that had been ... The many thousands of mummified animals that turned up at sacred sites throughout Egypt were just things to be cleared away to get at the good ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have found ancient mummification workshops and ... where humans and sacred animals were mummified, date back to the 30th Pharaonic dynasty about 2,400 years ago, Al Jazeera ...

Three mummified animals from ancient Egypt have been digitally unwrapped and dissected by researchers using high-resolution 3D scans. The snake, bird and cat, from the Egypt Centre's collection at ...