There’s no doubt scientific cat facts are endlessly fascinating, but learning about the way cats were treated in Ancient Egypt is something special. Case in point: This video from New Historia, which ...

Cats are among the most common household pets in America. Many of us have interacted or seen cats before, but most aren’t aware of how special they are. Wild cats date back all the way to 8000 B.C.

Since the far-off times of Ancient Egypt, women and cats have been aligned in art and culture, taking root in ideas about wisdom, independence, cunning, warfare and protection, and secret or occult ...

Sobek, crocodile-headed god of the Nile; Sekhmet, leonine goddess of war; Anubis, jackal god of the underworld; and Hathor, mother goddess with a cow’s horns: The ancient Egyptian pantheon of gods was ...

The story of how black cats became the furry face of the holiday is downright scary Halloween is supposed to scare you. It’s all malevolent witches, goblins, ghosts and shadowy beings haunting the ...

Of the many Egyptian deities, Bastet—the goddess of cats and daughter of the sun god Re—is one of the most recognizable. Her ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Cats. You can’t deny they have a certain mystique. Long before we were making memes about them on the internet, ...