Cats might have been sacred in ancient Egypt, but they were far from cherished pets. Discover why our assumptions about their treatment draw far more on modern sensibilities than historical reality ...

Peru’s Ministry of Culture shared some purrfect news recently: archaeologists working at the Nazca Lines site discovered a giant drawing of a cat. We spotted the news at Gizmodo. Yes, people were ...

CAIRO, Egypt — In the times of the ancient pharoahs, the cat was almost an equal of the gods. Pilgrims would place mummified cats around statues of cat-headed goddess Bastet, along with written ...