Egypt
Animal Mummies
National Geographic
A.R. Williams
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/11/animal-mummies/williams-text
Extract:
- Hawass Dig Days - Bastet The Cat
Al Ahram Weekly (Zahi Hawass) Tel Basta is an archaeological site in the city of Zagazig, in Sharqiya governorate. It was very important in ancient times because it was sacred to a goddess called Bastet, who took the form of a cat. Beginning in the Old...
- Feline Geneticist Traces Origin Of The Cat
USA Today (Emily Zeugner) They're fierce hunters and purring companions, subject of ancient paintings and modern-day cartoons, barnyard necessities and companions of single women everywhere. Both aloof and affectionate, cats have been revered —...
- Ancient Egyptians Loved Their Dead Animals
http://www.discover.com/issues/jul-05/rd/ancient-egyptians-loved-dead-animals Thanks to David Meadows's "Explorator" for the above article on the Discover Magazine website: "As part of an exhibit on mummified animals, Sabin has been analyzing the...
- Menagerie Of Mummies Unwraps Ancient Egypt
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6989 New Scientist article about a new collection of animal mummies being studied by the Natural History Museum in London, UK. X-ray analysis of the skeletons of some of the animals, particularly cats, suggests...
- Who Tamed Who
This story about the domestication of cats leaves me to wonder about tolerance rather than "taming". The human home always had mice and I am sure that wild cats were probably tolerated long before they became pets. When the cats around but there are no...
Egypt
Features
Animal Mummies
National Geographic
A.R. Williams
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/11/animal-mummies/williams-text
Extract:
In 1888 an Egyptian farmer digging in the sand near the village of Istabl Antar uncovered a mass grave. The bodies weren't human. They were feline—ancient cats that had been mummified and buried in pits in staggering numbers. "Not one or two here and there," reported the English Illustrated Magazine, "but dozens, hundreds, hundreds of thousands, a layer of them, a stratum thicker than most coal seams, ten to twenty cats deep." Some of the linen-wrapped cats still looked presentable, and a few even had gilded faces. Village children peddled the best specimens to tourists for change; the rest were sold in bulk as fertilizer. One ship hauled about 180,000, weighing some 38,000 pounds, to Liverpool to be spread on the fields of England.
- Hawass Dig Days - Bastet The Cat
Al Ahram Weekly (Zahi Hawass) Tel Basta is an archaeological site in the city of Zagazig, in Sharqiya governorate. It was very important in ancient times because it was sacred to a goddess called Bastet, who took the form of a cat. Beginning in the Old...
- Feline Geneticist Traces Origin Of The Cat
USA Today (Emily Zeugner) They're fierce hunters and purring companions, subject of ancient paintings and modern-day cartoons, barnyard necessities and companions of single women everywhere. Both aloof and affectionate, cats have been revered —...
- Ancient Egyptians Loved Their Dead Animals
http://www.discover.com/issues/jul-05/rd/ancient-egyptians-loved-dead-animals Thanks to David Meadows's "Explorator" for the above article on the Discover Magazine website: "As part of an exhibit on mummified animals, Sabin has been analyzing the...
- Menagerie Of Mummies Unwraps Ancient Egypt
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6989 New Scientist article about a new collection of animal mummies being studied by the Natural History Museum in London, UK. X-ray analysis of the skeletons of some of the animals, particularly cats, suggests...
- Who Tamed Who
This story about the domestication of cats leaves me to wonder about tolerance rather than "taming". The human home always had mice and I am sure that wild cats were probably tolerated long before they became pets. When the cats around but there are no...