This included a cache of 150 bronze statues depicting various gods and goddesses including Bastet, Anubis, Osiris, Amunmeen, Isis, Nefertum and Hathor.

Shanghai Museum has pulled in crowds this summer for an exhibition of ancient Egyptian relics including cat statues and other feline imagery, and which on Saturday nights allows up to 200 visitors to ...

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A cat visitor prepares to have its photo taken in front of a statue depicting the cat goddess Bastet at Shanghai Museum's "Meow Night", in Shanghai, China, August 31, 2024.

About Bastet Goddess: Bastet Goddess, originally a fierce lioness warrior goddess of sun worshiped throughout most of ancient Egyptian history. Later she became the cat goddess that is familiar today.

An ancient Egyptian burial ground has been unearthed with around 20 tombs kitted out with golden treasures including a gold foil statue of a cat goddess.

Other foils seemed to represent Bastet, a cat goddess, and the falcon-headed god Horus. "It is quite clear in contemporary religious texts that the Egyptian gods were thought [to] have flesh of ...

A cat visitor prepares to have its photo taken in front of a statue depicting the cat goddess Bastet at Shanghai Museum's "Meow Night\ 31,228 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you ...

A cat visitor prepares to have its photo taken in front of a statue depicting the cat goddess Bastet at Shanghai Museum's Meow Night.