Many wealthy families went so far as to mummify their cats so they could join their humans in the afterlife. Bastet, the Egyptian goddess of motherhood and fertility, famously sported a feline face.

The Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt announced that archaeologists unearthed a 2,000-year-old temple that was dedicated to the ancient Egyptian cat goddess, Bastet. The temple ruins were ...

"That was a moment," she said. Paleontologist Shorouq Al-Ashqar with the Bastetodon's remarkably intact skull and a figure of the Egyptian cat goddess Bastet. (Hesham Sallam/American University in ...