If you've ever thought that people nowadays are a bit obsessed with cats, allow me to (re)introduce you to ancient Egyptian culture. Cats are reverently depicted throughout thousands of years of ...

Most cat owners joke that their felines rule over their homes like royalty, but these asides could hold some truth. Research has found that some of today's U.S. house cats could be the descendants of ...

High in Egypt’s Nile Delta lie the ruins of Bubastis, the ancient city devoted to Bastet, once described by classical writers as a powerful center of female worship and devotion. This full documentary ...

In the May 7, 2018 issue of The New Yorker one article in particular caught my attention. It’s set in Egypt. It features a mighty cat. And, I’m familiar with the feline’s owner. This wonderfully ...

The active and mischievous Egyptian Mau is known for being one of the longest living cat breeds and one of the most fascinating felines. We say this because this regal-looking cat comes with a ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a 2,000-year-old temple that may have been dedicated to the ancient Egyptian cat goddess, Bastet, the Supreme Council of Antiquities said Tuesday. The ruins of the ...

CAIROCAIRO — At his Cairo apartment, located just off a busy road along the Nile River, Ashraf el-Helw, a third-generation Egyptian lion trainer, prepares for a show with his big cats. Instead of a ...

If you peaked in high school, you know the feeling: the sounds of your school bell, the smell of the cafeteria meatloaf, the touch of the dodgeball against the back of your neck. These are sensory ...

If internet cat videos and memes are any indication, people today are as obsessed with cats as the ancient Egyptians were. Now in Atlanta after a stint at the Brooklyn Museum, "Divine Felines: Cats of ...

Friendly felines first cozied up to humans in the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East at least 9,500 years ago, not in Egypt as commonly thought, an international team of researchers reported Thursday ...

Cats are currently found on every continent except Antartica, but now we know the origins of everyone's favorite felines. All modern domestic cats descend from a single type of wild cat known as Felis ...