The popular perception of ancient Egyptian cats has been driven by which monuments happen to survive to present day, but an examination of additional data reveals a striped surprise.

As 3,000 years of art and sculpture reveal, the divine menagerie of ancient Egypt reflects the rich and varied creatures of the Nile Valley.

If internet cat videos and memes are any indication, people today are as obsessed with cats as the ancient Egyptians were. Now in Atlanta after a stint at the Brooklyn Museum, "Divine Felines ...

The remains of some 588 cats, dogs and monkeys were found in a site in the ancient Egyptian port of Berenike in what archaeologists believe may be the oldest known pet cemetery, Pictured: A cat ...

Long before cats became stars of the internet, they enjoyed great fame in ancient Egypt. The exhibition “Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt” explores the role and meaning of cats through a ...

The cat image seems so inextricably Egyptian, while dogs were seldom represented in Egyptian art. At first, wild cats were probably tamed, rather than fully domesticated.

The ancient Egyptians loved their pets just as much as any current-day cat lady or dog dad. What might be the world’s oldest pet cemetery was uncovered by archaeologists in the early Roman port ...

In ancient Egypt, cats were associated with divinities, as revealed in Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt. Cat coffins and representations of the cat-headed goddess Bastet are among the ...

Sheba pet food is searching for a domestic cat in the U.S. with links to the feline nobility of ancient Egypt ...

Dogs and cats have never been the best of friends, but 9 million years ago, their ancient counterparts at least lived in harmony together. In ancient Spain, two alpha predators—the saber-toothed ...

But according to a new study, most of these ancient dogs suddenly disappeared about 20 million years ago. The culprit? Early cats.