An unwanted bronze cat which was retrieved from the dustbin has sold for $80,000 at auction. The bronze bust is thought to be some 2,500 years old and originated in Egypt, reports the BBC .

Bronze cat statue that grandmother kept by her fireplace was 2,500-year-old ancient Egyptian relic. David Lay did routine house clearance of a property in Cornwall ...

After years of being washed, perfumed and fed in ancient Egypt, the statue of a revered Egyptian deity was given a proper burial with other "dead" statues more than 2,000 years ago, a new study finds.

Ancient Egyptians seem to have been "cat people," or at least cat mummy people. Researchers have dug up several mummified cats alongside about 100 wooden cat statues in a tomb complex near a ...

A bronze statue showing Bastet, an Egyptian goddess in the shape of a cat, was discovered along with the cat statues. The goddess statue is shown in the foreground of this photo along with some of ...

Nevine El-Aref, Saturday 23 Nov 2019. During a press conference, the antiquities minister said Saturday's was not the last discovery of the year, but that there will be another one next month ...

This Ancient Egyptian bronze statue from the Ptolemaic era once contained a mummified cat! Join Andrew as he takes viewers to look at a peculiar item in the Dr. Gabriel Manigault Collection at the ...

Cat statues on display, at an ancient necropolis near Egypt’s famed pyramids in Saqqara, Giza, Egypt, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018. A top Egyptian antiquities official says local archaeologists have ...

250 Ancient Mummy Coffins and 150 Bronze Statues Discovered in Egyptian Necropolis — See Some of the Treasures The treasures will go on display at the Grand Egyptian Museum near Cairo By ...

A statue made of bronze showing Bastet, an Egyptian goddess who appears in the shape of a cat, was also discovered, the ministry said. In ancient Egyptian mythology, Bastet had a multitude of powers.