A notable discovery was a tall bronze statue representing Bastet, the Egyptian cat goddess associated with protection, music, and pleasure. The site's location and contents suggest it served as a ...

The Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt announced that ... Around 600 Ptolemaic statues, which included several intricate depictions of the cat goddess Bastet, were also unearthed.

Many museums around the world are filled with marble statues from ancient Greece and Rome. Some viewers recognize that these works of art were not originally displayed in their glistening white form, ...

Archaeologists spent the past two years excavating the ruins of a 3,000-year-old mining camp at Sukari Mountain, Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said in a Feb. 25 Facebook post. The ...

A trove of ancient artifacts was revealed by Egyptian archaeologists this week and includes 150 bronze statues and 250 coffins dating back 2,500 years. The treasures were recently found at the ...

Found at the Karnak Temple complex in Luxor, the 2,600-year-old trove includes a necklace depicting a golden trio of Egyptian deities Eli Wizevich Howard Carter used the luggage while working in ...

There are 79 statues of men and eight of women. Alan Beattie Herriot The cat would be secured to a wall in William Street in Edinburgh Sculptor Alan Beattie Herriot, who created the statue of ...

A royal tomb belonging to an ancient Egyptian King has been unearthed, in what has been called a "remarkable" discovery by officials. A joint Egyptian-British archaeological mission identified the ...

an Egyptian deity who often took the form of a cat, and Harpocrates, another form of the sun god Horus typically depicted as a child. Some ancient statues found at the Sukari site. Photo from ...