Pharaoh’s Animal Kingdom, a new exhibition for children at the Israel Museum, explores the relationship between animals and Egyptian culture through hieroglyphs, gods, and amulets ...

New studies trace the domestication of cats to ancient Egypt, linking their origins to religious rituals and the cult of ...

Two studies of ancient felines find that cats were likely domesticated in Egypt or other regions in North Africa — and moved ...

"Both cultures placed deep emphasis on unity, spirituality, and the afterlife," Xue notes. "Egyptians imagined a glorious ...

The Museum of Idaho is thrilled to announce its next world-class traveling exhibition, Mummies of the World: The Exhibition, ...

A newly discovered gene, Arhgap36, explains the rare orange coloring in cats and why most are male. It could have effects ...

Scientists have studied an enigmatic mummy from the crypt of an Austrian church and revealed an unusual embalming method and ...

STORY: You might think that a mummified corpse would have a fairly unpleasant stink.But according to scientists researching ...

The Museum of Idaho (MOI) has introduced its next exhibit as “Mummies of the World: The Exhibition,” slated to open May 31 ...

Like the masks that had covered the faces of Egyptian mummies for many centuries before, this one is made of cartonnage, a technique in which linen is stiffened with plaster, sculpted into the for ...