They purr beside you now, curled up in cozy corners or stalking across your living room but behind those glowing eyes and ...

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is home to cat mummies as part of our anthropology collections. Cat coffins and representations of the cat-headed goddess Bastet are among the ...

Killing a cat in Ancient Egypt was not a good idea ... Not everyone throughout history agreed that they were merely cute pets. The 12th century writer Walter Mapp told of the devil appearing ...

Ancient Egyptians thought cats were very special. They wanted to take their cats with them into the afterlife so they often mummified them and put them in their tombs. This piece of papyrus ...

"From the thrones of ancient Egypt to our modern-day couches, humans' love for their cats has remained strong. We've crafted the new premium offering of SHEBA SELECTIONS Filets with doting pet ...

In 1890, an estimated 180,000 mummified cats, weighing 19.5 tonnes, were auctioned off. Where did the ancient felines come from and why were they so many? We take a look into a story that tells us ...

Or perhaps you know someone who swears they can still hear their childhood cat moving around the house ... But this has not always been the case. In ancient Greece and Rome, you might assume ...