During the years 1887-1889, Edouard Naville excavated Bubastis and found huge pits filled with the remains of cremated cats near brick ovens that were blackened from use. In one pit he found 720 cubic feet of bones, but he noted that in many cases ichneumons (mongoose) were buried along with the cats. Naville’s find is […]
CAT MUMMIES AND TOMB PAINTINGS AT BENI HASSAN
August 30, 2012 By 4 Comments
Large numbers of cat mummies and tomb paintings have been found near a small village called Beni Hassan, located 23 kilometers south of Minya, between Asyut and Memphis. With its necropolis located high in the limestone cliffs on the eastern side of the Nile, it was here that the famous archeologist, Flinders Petrie, found a […]
CAT MUMMIES AT SAQQARA
August 15, 2012 By 2 Comments
Most of the cat mummies at Saqqara were young before they died, about 4 months old, and were killed by head trauma, which was sometimes so violent that the skull split in two. Other cats were killed by strangulation due to evidence of dislocated vertebrae. The bodies of the Saqqara cat mummies were in […]
