Below the infographic I briefly touch on the ancient Egyptian paradox of both admiring and respecting the cat while abusing the animal. And ...

Image: MikeB Well, something entirely different for me and something I knew nothing about until I thought about it while preparing this post...

The ancient Egyptians may well have been the world's first cat breeders. Also, they may have bred by far the greatest number of cats at ...

This is a short note to remind us that today's domestic cat is smaller and more varied in coat colour and pattern compared to the domest...

There may be others, currently unknown, but the oldest recorded pet cemetery in the world is in the Egyptian port of Berenice. The map shows...

Ubasti is another name for the Bast, Bastet or Pasht, the ancient Egyptian goddess who represented as either a seated cat is as a cat-heade...

A recent archaeological dig in Egypt confirms what we probably already knew, namely that the favoured companion animal by far in ancient Egy...

It is uncivilised, disrespectful and unethical for archaeologists to dig up the mummified remains of people and their pets from ancient Egyp...