Cats are theorized to be older than dogs, with their family tree branching off nearly 2.5 million years before canines. They ...

While it is common to see cats in modern households, cats are among the most recently domesticated animals. Archaeological ...

A stunning discovery of mummified lion cubs and other animals in the Saqqara necropolis offers a glimpse into ancient ...

Animals have played roles that go far beyond their presence in the natural world since the times of ancient civilisations to ...

Here, we see statuettes and figurines depicting cats and Egyptian deities found in a cache dating to the Egyptian ... cats' protectiveness and independence and saw the traits of their gods in cats.

Beyond Myth & Metaphor' at the Triveni Kala Sangam weaves wonderful stories around women, nature and myth in vivid hues ...

The greatest civilisations of humanity – today increasingly merged into the amorphous world of the globalised consumer ...

They channel the mystical and metaphorical self, peopled with sphinxes, cat-women and ambiguous ... with Shakespeare, Greek mythology, Egyptian and medieval history and opera.

Egyptian authorities have unveiled a trove ... worshippers either believed these mummified animals were deities themselves, or actively mummified them as ritualistic offerings to the gods. Ikram leans ...

By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...

According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld. Horus fought his uncle Seth to see who would be ruler of Egypt. During the fight, Seth mut ...

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