Many pet owners may treat their cats as royalty, but the ancient Egyptians went one step further: They looked to felines as symbols of divinity. To honor this history, the Shanghai Museum in China has ...

For the final two years of the study, the researchers will be dissecting the genetic secrets of their large collection of ...

A mummified ice age cub discovered in Siberia is exceptionally preserved, providing the first view of what saber-toothed cats ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a collection of mummified cats and scarab beetles in a series of ancient tombs. Reuters The finds, dating back more than 4,000 years, were made at Saqqara ...

it seemed likely that the cat would also have a coat suited to blending into the wide open spaces. “The uniform dark brown color of the mummy fur turned out to be completely unexpected ...

The Field Museum also had conversations with Egyptian representatives about returning the mummies to Egypt, but those officials requested that the mummies remain on display at the Chicago museum ...

X-ray scans have finally answered the mystery of how a famous Egyptian mummy was placed inside a coffin with no opening. Scientists were able to see into Lady Chenet-aa's sarcophagus for the first ...

A mummified ice age cub from Siberia is the first known mummy of a sabre-toothed cat, and its discovery is generating ripples of excitement among paleontologists. The mummy's exceptional ...

Chicago’s Field Museum is home to over a dozen ancient Egyptian mummies but one in particular has perplexed researchers for years. Now, the mystery of Lady Chenet-aa’s burial procedure appears ...

For the first time, researchers were able to see inside the mummies in the Chicago Field Museum’s collections. Their findings paint a more comprehensive picture of ancient Egyptian life Julia ...

(There are.) Also on display: an ancient Egyptian cat mummy, believed to date to 332-30 B.C.Credit...Mike Schoeffel/Special to USA TODAY, via Imagn On the way out, visitors can buy one of Dr.