(MENAFN- Nam News Network) EGYPT CAT MUMMIES DISCOVERED IN ANCIENT TOMBS
EGYPT CAT MUMMIES DISCOVERED IN ANCIENT TOMBS. Mummified cats in the necropolis at Saqqara, south of Cairo, Egypt, on Nov 11, 2018. Egyptian archaeologists excavating a 4,500-year-old tomb near Cairo has found dozens of mummified cats. Also in the tomb were 100 gilded wooden cat statues, as well as a bronze statue of Bastet, the goddess of cats. The discoveries were made at a newly discovered tomb in Saqqara, the site of a necropolis used by the ancient city of Memphis. The tomb dates from the fifth dynasty of the old Kingdom, and archaeologists have found another one nearby with its door still sealed raising the possibility that its contents are untouched. Photo courtesy Ministry of Antiquities-Arab Republic of Egypt
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