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   Why did ancient Egypt have cats?

   • Cats, however, occupied a special space in Ancient Egypt. According to James Allen Baldwin, cats are present in Egypt’s archaeological record as far back as the predynastic period, almost 5,000 years ago. Cats likely became so entwined with Egyptian life for practical reasons: Agriculture attracted rodents, which attracted wild cats.

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   Did Egyptians worship cats?

   • “The Egyptians looked at the cat the same way they looked at everything, as a way to explain and personify the universe,” said Egyptologist Melinda Hartwig, the curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art at Emory University’s Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta, per HowStuffWorks. But she notes Egyptians didn’t worship cats.

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   How were cats treated in ancient Egypt?

   • In the land of the Pharaohs, the cats were pampered, respected, and protected. While ritual killings of the sacred felines were allowed, unsanctioned murder would be harshly punished, with the culprit sentenced to death. For centuries, cats in ancient Egypt maintained their exalted position, recorded by ancient sources in minute detail.

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   How many cats were there in ancient Egypt?

   • Interestingly, while there was more than one cat in ancient Egypt, the Egyptians only had a single word for a feline, the onomatopoeic “miu” or “miit”, meaning literally “he or she who mews.” Some people were even named after cats, including the Pharaoh Pami whose name means “Tomcat” or “he who belongs to the Cat (Bastet).”

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2. www.history.com › news › cats-ancient-egyptHow Cats Became Divine Symbols in Ancient Egypt | HISTORY

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   Aug 17, 2021 · Through their ubiquitous presence in the art, fashion and home ornamentation of ancient Egypt, cats served as an everyday reminder of the power of the gods.

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   In ancient Egypt, cats were represented in social and religious scenes dating as early as 1980 BC. Several ancient Egyptian deities were depicted and sculptured with cat-like heads such as Mafdet , Bastet and Sekhmet , representing justice, fertility, and power, respectively. [3]

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   Dec 7, 2021 · For centuries, cats in ancient Egypt maintained their exalted position, recorded by ancient sources in minute detail. Regime changes did not diminish the feline’s position. People in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt continued to revere the cat.

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6. www.livescience.com › ancient-egypt-catsWhy were the ancient Egyptians obsessed with cats?

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   Apr 17, 2021 · The ancient Egyptians are famed for their fondness of all things feline. There's no shortage of cat-themed artifacts — from larger-than-life statues to intricate jewelry — that have...

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   Nov 27, 2018 · Cats likely became so entwined with Egyptian life for practical reasons: Agriculture attracted rodents, which attracted wild cats. Humans learned to protect and value the creatures that kept their fields and granaries rodent-free.

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   Nov 10, 2020 · The pampered house cats we love so much share a long history with us, one that flowered in Ancient Egypt some 10,000 years ago as two species of wildcats made their way into homes and hearths — the African wildcat (Felis sylvestris lybica) and the jungle cat (Felis chaus).

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   Jan 7, 2018 · Hundreds of thousands descended on the temple there every year for the festival of Bast, which the visiting Greek historian Herodotus described as one of the most popular in all of Egypt. Cats appeared in art, always in a position of respect, and were domesticated into loving members of a family – so much so that they would be mourned and ...