Ancient Egyptians mummified baboons for religious purposes, but new research reveals they were likely raised in captivity ...

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 ...

Much like cats, crocodiles, and lions, the hippopotamus was a revered animal in ancient Egyptian culture, as it represents ...

The cemetery provides key clues about how the region transitioned into the great Ancient Egyptian civilization.

Donnington Grove Vets X-rayed the mummified animals from the museum collection. A small statue of the Ancient Egyptian God Horus, who had a a falcon-head, a sign of importance of animals in ...

As a professor at the American University in Cairo, she adopted the Egyptian Museum's languishing collection of animal mummies as a research project. After taking precise measurements, peering ...

In Egyptian mythology, gods and goddesses could transform into animals, but only one, Bastet, goddess of home and fertility, was believed to be able to take on the form of a cat. A magnificent ...

A landfall in the ancient Egyptian city of Abydos has unearthed a cemetery of animal mummies that archaeologists hope could give clues to new religious cults in the Ptolemaic period, officials ...