Zoolatry has roots in several cultures, but perhaps the most well-known is ancient Egypt. Ancient Egyptian animals and their meanings have continued to be prevalent today, even if zoolatry is less ...

Egyptologist Salima Ikram explains how human and animal mummies reveal ancient Egyptians’ diets, beliefs, environment and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A menagerie of mummified animals went on display south of Cairo on Saturday (November 23) including what authorities say is the ...

Excavators working at Tel Kom Aziza in Egypt’s Nile Delta have identified the deliberate burial of a wild boar, an animal whose remains are exceptionally rare in Egyptian archaeological contexts. The ...

Cat Mummy (Third Intermediate Period to Late Period, 780–390 BCE) and ibis mummy from the ibis cemetery at Abydos (Early Roman Period, 30 BCE–early 1st century CE) in ‘Soulful Creatures: Animal ...

The contents of six sealed ancient Egyptian animal coffins—which were imaged using a non-invasive technique—are described in a new study published in Scientific Reports. The mummification of animals ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 3,000-year-old young male horse inside Egypt’s ancient Abqaa’ fortress, suggesting it may have been used to pull a chariot. Nearby harness fittings point ...

Researchers at a UK university have “digitally unwrapped” three mummified animals from ancient Egypt using high-resolution 3D scans. The team were also able to dissect the mummies to learn how the ...