Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Bubasteum or Bubasteion was a Ptolemaic and Roman temple complex dedicated to Bastet in the cliff face of the desert boundary of Saqqara. In Arabic the place is called Abwab el-Qotat ( "The Gates of the Cats" ).
The name of Bubastis in Egyptian is Pr-Bȝst.t, conventionally pronounced Per-Bast but its Earlier Egyptian pronunciation can be reconstructed as /ˈpaɾu-buˈʀistit/. It is a compound of Egyptian pr (“house") and the name of the goddess Bastet; thus the phrase means "House of Bast". [4]
Children's literature portal; The Cat of Bubastes, A Tale of Ancient Egypt is an 1889 historical novel written for boys by British author G.A. Henty.It is the story of a young prince who becomes a slave when the Egyptians conquer his people, then is made a fugitive when his master accidentally kills a sacred cat.
Excavations in the Bubasteum area at Saqqara in the early 1980s yielded 200 cat mummies in the tomb of the Vizier Aperel. [43] Another 184 cat mummies were found in a different part of this tomb in the 1990s, comprising 11 packets with a few cat bones and 84 packets containing mud, clay and pebbles.
Ragdolls are a fairly recent cat breed, having only been established in the 1960s by a breeder named Ann Baker in the US, and recognized as an official breed by the Cat Fanciers’ Association ...
It’s a well-established fact that cats rule the Internet. From their toe beans to their tongue tips, netizens can’t seem to get enough of felines doing their furry thing, whether they’re ...
One of the fun facts about British shorthair cats is that they were used to breed American shorthair cats. The first record of breeding was in 1904. The first record of breeding was in 1904. 11.
Articles relating to the goddess Bastet, her cult, and her depictions.Bastet was worshipped in Bubastis in Lower Egypt, originally as a lioness goddess, a role shared by other deities such as Sekhmet.