"People would make devotional offerings in the form of animals as mummies. This would have more potency as a blood sacrifice, ...

The excavators overseen by Youssef uncovered hundreds of coffins, mummies and grave goods, including carved statues and mummified cats ... into a period late in ancient Egyptian history when ...

Ancient Macedonians prized the big-cat hunt and regarded ... They stepped into a large, vaulted, double chamber strewn with smashed pottery, silver vases, bronze vessels, armor and weapons ...

Two metal detectorists recently came across millennia-old treasure in a small European village. The discovery was made this spring in the Romanian commune of Breaza, Mureș County, which is ...

For decades, researchers have theorized that ancient cats in and around Cyprus —  located southeast of Greece, south of Turkey —most likely followed early farmers and then “gradually got accustomed to ...

Some Savannah owners even teach their cats to walk on leashes, providing safe outdoor experiences. The Abyssinian is one of the world’s oldest known cat breeds, with a look reminiscent of ancient ...

Some Savannah owners even teach their cats to walk on leashes, providing safe outdoor experiences. The Abyssinian is one of the world’s oldest known cat breeds, with a look reminiscent of ancient ...

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