Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

That Israeli soldiers were reportedly attacked by a lynx of Egyptian origin has stirred the imagination of social media users ...

Discover the history of our feline friends, and learn about the debate over whether cats are really "domesticated" at all.

The African wildcat was first tamed in ancient Egypt some 4,000 years ago, marking the beginning of cat domestication. Cats ...

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is home to cat mummies as part of our anthropology collections. Cat coffins and representations of the cat-headed goddess Bastet are among the ...

Cat Mummies Were a Big Thing in Ancient Egypt Archaelogists uncover what appear to be cat mummies–a common practice around the Ptolemaic period. But an x-ray scan reveals a surprise: the mummies ...

Travel back in time thousands of year to the banks of the Nile, where you can learn all about the amazing people and places of Ancient Egypt. What remains of Ancient Egypt? How do we know so much ...

A reported attack by a caracal wild cat on Israeli soldiers has gone viral among social media users in the Arab world.

The handful animal ghosts in the ancient world are often depicted not as friendly visitors but as mere tools for humans – and ...