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Cat Mummies McClung Museum of Natural History Culture ~ Cat mummies are being carefully investigated in terms of religion cultural history relation to the environment questions relating to the genus and species whether they were wild or domesticated the diseases they had and how exactly they were mummified

Animal mummy Wikipedia ~ Cats were mummified as religious offerings in enormous quantities and were believed to represent the war goddess Bastet This cult was primarily centered at Thebes and Beni Hasan beginning in the Ptolemaic Period In addition thousands of cat mummies have been found at the catacombs of Saqqara Cats who were bred to become offerings of this type usually died due to strangulation or the breaking of their necks

Archaeologists Discover Dozens Of Cat Mummies 100 Cat ~ And while cat mummies are fascinating Catanzariti said they were also pretty common in ancient Egypt where cats were bred for the purpose In the 1890s people from England went to Egypt

Dozens of cat mummies found in 6000yearold tombs in ~ Among the dozens of cat mummies unearthed were 100 wooden gilded statues of cats and one in bronze dedicated to the cat goddess Bastet Cats held a special place in ancient Egypt and

Cat mummies rare beetles discovered in Egyptian tomb CNN ~ Seven tombs were discovered during the archaeological mission which started in April They included three tombs with dozens of cat mummies that can be traced back to the fifth and sixth

Archaeologists have discovered dozens of cat mummies in an ~ Antonietta Catanzariti a curator at the Smithsonian said scientists have found hundreds of thousands of cat mummies over the years The ancient Egyptians were drawn to felines hunting

Cat mummies of ancient Egypt C L Francisco ~ Cat Mummies as Votive Offerings Cat mummies discovered in early excavations at Bubastis were probably the first to be seen by Western explorersarchaeologists but the cat cemetery unearthed at Beni Hasan a site roughly 100 miles south of Cairo and known for its beautiful tombs was carefully described by a Western observer In 1888 near the rockcut temple dedicated to the lion goddess Pakhet a huge cat cemetery was discovered

Kitten Mummies Found in Pyramid Were Likely Strangled by ~ Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered dozens of mummified cats along with 100 wooden gilded statues of felines and a bronze statue of a cat goddess named Bastet

CAT MUMMIES AT SAQQARA ~ The bodies of the Saqqara cat mummies were in differing stages of decay and in one of two positions In the first form of mummification the front legs were placed downward in front of the body and the back legs often purposely broken were folded up in front of the stomach with the tail placed through them thus making the cat a tubular shape

Cats in ancient Egypt Wikipedia ~ Most of them were cat mummies A large part was sold as fertiliser a small part was purchased by the zoological museum of the citys university college The Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon received hundreds of cat mummies excavated by Gaston Maspero at Beni Hasan Sakkara and Thebes The cats were of all ages from adult to kittens with deciduous teeth