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	Cats in Ancient Egypt
		Animal worship in ancient Egypt is part of the culture of daily life of Egyptians.
		It was in Egypt that the cat was first domesticated 4,000 years ago and where they were held in the most admiration and respect.
		The ancient Egyptians took their cats on hunting excursions instead of dogs, The most popular excursions being the marshes where cats may have been trained to retrieve fowl and fish.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/egypt/religion/cats.html (837 words)

	Cats in Ancient Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cats were often given golden jewelry and allowed to eat at the human table.
		Ancient Egypt had many gods and at least one of these, Bast, was a cat god.
		She was originally a protective warrior goddess and was known as the defender of the pharoah and all Egypt.
	www.wyrdology.com /cats/egypt.html (323 words)

	From Mouser to God - cats in Ancient Egypt Animals - Find Articles
		The earliest depictions of Egyptian wild cats are in a sun temple built in the third millennium B.C. on the west bank of the Nile southwest of Cairo.
		The ancient Egyptians' name for all cats, wild or domestic, was miu, meaning literally "he who mews." The hieroglyphic image for this word was simply a picture of a seated cat facing to the left, with its tail curled along its left side.
		Unlike dogs in ancient Egypt, individual cats were not named; an exception is the figure of a cat found in the tomb of Puimre at Thebes with the name Nedjem, meaning "Sweet" or "Pleasant." But while most cats shared the simple appellation, miu, some people took names from cats.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FRO/is_3_133/ai_62297317 (1036 words)

	Sacred Cats in Ancient Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The earliest known remains of a cat in Egypt come from Mostagedda, south of Asyut in Middle Egypt, and are dated to sometime before 4000 B.C. At Beni Hasan, an Egyptian archeological site, more than 300,000 mummified cats were unearthed.
		Cats were regarded with something approaching veneration, to the extent that to kill one was a capital offence.
		Cats guarded the royal granaries and kept them free from creatures such as rats that threatened the food supplies.
	wysinger.homestead.com /cats.html (283 words)

	In ancient Egypt, cats seemed quite at home \| csmonitor.com
		The ancient Egyptians, not unlike ourselves, realized that the benevolent nature of the cat was to be valued no less than the creature's crafty hunting abilities.
		Given the vast numbers of cat statuettes that were made as votive offerings (cats were seen to embody the goddess Bastet), it's perhaps surprising to learn that dogs had been domesticated long before cats.
		Ancient Egyptians, in their worship, did not draw strict lines between the human and the animal kingdoms.
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/0628/p22s02-hfes.htm (343 words)

	Egypt — The Cat in Ancient Egypt
		There is a cat known as the African wild cat (Felis silvestris libyca)-one of the closest wild relatives of the modern cat.
		The earliest feline cat goddess recorded was called Mafdet and is described in the Pyramid Texts as killing a serpent with her claws.
		Cats were held in such high esteem that at one point, the penalty for killing a cat-even accidentally-was death.
	www.touregypt.net /magazine/mag04012001/magf1.htm (1343 words)

	Cats and Kittens Magazine Egyptian Cats Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The murder of a cat was a capital offense, and cats were mummified at death.
		Cats' earliest association with the deities of ancient Egypt probably began with Isis, but the link was cemented in Bastet, the daughter of Isis and Osiris.
		Perhaps the saddest irony of the importance and stature of cats in the days of ancient Egypt was contained in a CNN report from Gayle Young in Cairo, Egypt, on May 18, 1996.
	www.petpublishing.com /catkit/articles/egypt.shtml (1867 words)

	This is The North East \| CommuniGate \| Cat Goddesses In Ancient Egypt.
		The cat's hunting instincts were honoured by the Ancient Egyptians, but so was the cat's gentler side as a warm and loving mother to her kittens.
		The body of the cat was first brought to a priest to make sure the death of the cat was natural, after that was finished with the body was brought to an embalmer to be mummified.
		The cat goddess Bastet, often depicted with a cat's head and a woman's body, was the goddess of family and life.
	www.communigate.co.uk /ne/catcare/page64.phtml (892 words)

	Natural History Museum: Cats! Wild to Mild: DOMESTICATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cats were part of the Egyptian fauna, probably descending from the wild cat and maybe the result of a little breeding with swamp cats.
		Illustrations of domestic cats appear in the Middle Kingdom, but the name of a female cat is known from an earlier time, and skeletons of cats are known in pre-dynastic cemeteries.
		Cats and humans spent about a thousand years establishing a symbiotic relationship until about the end of the third millennium BCE, when the cat was domesticated fully and became an economic ally, companion, and household pet.
	www.lam.mus.ca.us /cats/P24/more.htm (918 words)

	EGYPTIAN PET CAT AND GOD MUMMIES \| ANCIENT EGYPT LAND OF THE PHAROAHS, SUN GOD RA HAWKS HEAD TRADEMARK.
		Cats were also of service to fowlers in their search for birds in the Nile marshes, as attested by a wall painting in the New Kingdom tomb of Nebamun at Thebes.
		A cat became sacred only after special rituals were performed, and in the belief that the cat deity Bastet dwelt within the animal, and perhaps by certain markings deemed divine.
		Cat mummies are being carefully investigated in terms of religion, cultural history, relation to the environment, questions relating to the genus and species, whether they were wild or domesticated, the diseases they had, and how exactly they were mummified.
	www.solarnavigator.net /egyptian_cat_mummies.htm (2966 words)

	Cat Article: The Cat In Ancient Egypt
		As soon as the Egyptians began supplying the cats with food, thereby significantly changing their diet, and breeding them for certain characteristics, the cats were domesticated.
		Cats were held in such high esteem that at one point, the penalty for killing a cat, even accidentally, was death.
		The sanctity of the cat in ancient Egypt went so far that to kill one (even accidently) could result in a death sentence for the offender.
	www.zapgraphix.com /articles_0007.html (1535 words)

	Cats in Ancient Egypt
		The cat was asleep on his arm and rather than wake the cat, Mohammed cut the sleeve from his robe and set it down with the dozing cat.
		According to the Koran, the cat is the esscence of purity.
		A cat hospital was built in Bab-el-Nasz, and it was considered a blessing to bring food to the patients.
	www.geocities.com /Petsburgh/Fair/1001/egyptiancats.html (1021 words)

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		It was with the arrival of the domestication of cats, that stone and bronze figures of the fertility goddess, Bast, were modelled with a cat's head and not a lions' head.
		One reason being; it was thought that cat's eyes glowed in the dark because the sun's rays were stored there in the night hours, during which time Ra fought Apepi, the snake of darkness.
		The extent to which cats were revered is found in ancient documents which explain that if a pet cat died the whole household would shave their eyebrows off in respect.
	www.geocities.com /Actiekat/englishegypt.html (1025 words)

	Ancient Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ancient Egypt was a long-lived civilization in north-eastern Africa.
		Ancient Egypt's foreign contacts included Nubia and Punt to the south, the Aegean and ancient Greece to the north, the Levant and other regions in the Near East to the east, and also Libya to the west.
		There is evidence of ancient Egyptian Pharaohs of the twelfth dynasty using the natural lake of the Fayyum as a reservoir to store surpluses of water for use during the dry seasons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ancient_Egypt (3967 words)

	The Role of Cats in Ancient Egypt
		Cats can be adopted from the Humane Society, bought at a pet store, bred, or rescued off the street, but their contribution to the household they are in is invaluable.
		Fully domesticated cats in Egypt as companions to humans probably originated around 2000 BCE They were usually captured from the wild as kittens to be domesticated.
		She was referred to as Bastet when in full cat form, as opposed to the representation of Bast as a beautiful girl with the body of a human and the head of a cat.
	iweb.tntech.edu /jneapolitan/egypt.html (1838 words)

	History of Cats in Art - Ancient to Present Times
		Cats have lived closely with both artists and writers, and have appeared as subjects on their own in cat pictures, or as part of a composition.
		When a cat died in Egypt, the body was embalmed with a full ceremony.
		Morris the Cat is perhaps one of the most famous cats in advertising.
	www.catpicturegallery.com /history-cats-art.htm (1525 words)

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		Although ancient Egyptians admired similar statuettes of cats as modern Americans collect today, the Egyptians saw these statuettes as religious symbols with long histories, and the modern Americans see these statuettes as a way of showing the love and admiration that they feel towards their cats.
		In these representations the cat is seen as aiding the sun-god Ra on his nightly journey to underworld.(Jasomir Malek, Cats in Ancient Egypt (London: British Museum Press, 1993) pp.
		A modern cat lover who buys such a statuette maybe knowledgeable amount its original meaning but coming from a vastly different culture, he or she would ascribe the modern meaning to the statuette.
	orpheus.ucsd.edu /va11/sandmeier.html (1401 words)

	Town Cats - June 2003 Newsletter
		I learned to hide that I was caring for feral cats so as not to bring attention to the cats in order to protect their shelter and feeding stations.
		Man befriended feral cats in ancient Egypt to help keep rodent populations down in feed storage areas in towns and villages which is a needed function and should be welcome in today's society.
		Cats are very smart animals, they know the exact time their meal ticket arrives daily and are right there waiting for their food.
	www.towncats.org /newsletter/newsletter_0603.htm (1317 words)

	Cats In Ancient Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Evidence of how the Egyptians carried on their love and adoration of cats can be seen in many things, including the everyday art of the Egyptians.
		Images of cats began to appear in Egyptian art starting around 2600 B.C., but took on a more prominent role after 1600 B. They were see in paintings curled up under their owners' chairs, chewing on bones, playing with one another.
		Young Egyptian women used cat amulets, called "utchats," as fertility tokens, praying to have as many children as the number of kittens shown on the amulet.
	www.paralumun.com /egyptcat.htm (231 words)

	Pet Loss and Ancient Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In Ancient Egypt household cats were regarded as sacred and were embalmed after death and buried in sacred repositories.
		In 1982, thousands of cat mummies were found heaped in the tunnels and shafts of Vizir Aperia's tomb at Saqqara, a huge desert necropolis which lay beyond the west bank of the Nile.
		Cats were also ritually cremated, and there is much evidence of this at the cat temple of Pakhet at Beni Hassan, where also quite recently a new seam of cat mummies was discovered.
	www.pets2rest.co.uk /egypt.htm (308 words)

	The Cat in Ancient Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The ancient Egyptians didn't really worship cats, they just knew from experience that the cats would get on top of everything they built anyway, so they just carved cats on top of everything, avoiding deep scratches to their furniture.
		Anyway, there was no distinction between indoor and outdoor cats, and most people probably did not even have what we would consider proper doors, so I imagine the cats simply did their business outdoors as per usual.
		Cats are a great example of the need to be lazy, to sleep alot, to eat alot, to go out drinking (they like outside water better), to be selectively deaf, to love getting treats,...
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/833609/posts (3923 words)

	Ancient Egypt
		Egypt became a major power in the ancient world, dominating the region until their conquest by Romans.
		The skills of the ancient Egyptians in preserving bodies through mummification are well known, but their expertise in the everyday medical practices needed to treat living is less familiar and often misinterpreted.
		By far the most important amulet in ancient Egypt was the scarab, symbolically as sacred to the Egyptians as the cross is to Christians.
	www.42explore2.com /egypt.htm (2588 words)

	Cats in Ancient Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cats (domesticated form: Felis sylvestris libyca (bubastis)) are attested already in the 8th and 7th millennium BC in the Near East.
		In Egypt remains of cats have been found in cemeteries of the Naqada Period (Brunton/Caton-Thompson 1928: 94).
		Langton 1940 (catalogue of cats in a private collection, at time of publication not yet part of the Petrie Museum)
	www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk /foodproduction/cat.html (141 words)

	Natural History Museum: Cats! Wild to Mild: Who Shall Remain Nameless (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Depictions of cats often show them with jewelry such as earrings and necklaces, so it is likely that Egyptians adorned their pets.
		The height of cat worship in Egypt was reached around 400 BCE with the mother goddess, Bastet.
		Her largest temple was in the city of Bubastis and housed many, many cats, as well as numerous bronze statues of cats, such as the one before you.
	www.lam.mus.ca.us /cats/bisno/index.htm (297 words)

	Did the ancient Egyptians worship cats? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		No, the ancient Egyptians did not worship cats -- this is a rumor spread by the ancient Greeks!
		But they did like to have cats as pets and as hunting animals, and they did worship a cat-headed goddess called Bastet.
		So, in ancient Egypt, cats were regarded as pretty special.
	www.digonsite.com /drdig/egypt/116.html (50 words)

	Grade 6: Egyptian Projects and Internet Resources
		This is part of a MUCH larger site by Mr Deurer The Egyptian Galleries which hosts a Time Warp Gallery of his paintings, a tour of Egypt (ancient and modern) with maps and photographs, a beginners guide to Egyptian Mythology and a comprehensive explanation of heiroglyphs.
		A look at the life and work of one man in ancient Egypt whom many consider to be the first revolutionary in history.
		Articles and images on subjects such as: Sports in Ancient Egypt, The Significance of Writing, Scientific Achievements of Ancient Egyptians, Education and Learning, Medicine, Dress and Adornment, Marriage, Glass-making, and Biography of Akhenaten.
	www.internet-at-work.com /hos_mcgrane/egypt/egyptintro.html (2607 words)

	Amazon.com: The Cat in Ancient Egypt: Books: Jaromir Malek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		silvestris libyca, cat under the chair, divine cats, magic knives, tomb owner, seated cat, lady mouse, mummified cats, cat mummies, papyrus stalk, domesticated cat, decorated tombs, bronze statuette, female cat
		From the wild cats domesticated in Egypt around 2,000 BC to the worship of the cat goddess Baster, this readable but authoritive book has many color as well as fl and white illustrations.
		Starting from the Wildcats of the swamps to the "domestic" cat and to the gods who took the cat as their theogeny, Malek probes the relationship between animal, the Ancient Egyptians, and their Gods.
	www.amazon.com /Cat-Ancient-Egypt-Jaromir-Malek/dp/0812216326 (1155 words)

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