Pharaoh’s Animal Kingdom, a new exhibition for children at the Israel Museum, explores the relationship between animals and ...

Ancient Egyptians revered animals, mummifying them as offerings to gods. Recently, scientists at the University of Manchester ...

A newly discovered gene, Arhgap36, explains the rare orange coloring in cats and why most are male. It could have effects beyond fur color.

The mummies of Vác remain relatively unknown even though there are hundreds of them in the crypt of the town's Roman Catholic ...

New studies trace the domestication of cats to ancient Egypt, linking their origins to religious rituals and the cult of ...

A mysterious creature with human-like hands found mummified in a historic building is being probed by scientists - and nobody ...

An incredible example of this is the little-known case of a mummy located in the church crypt of St Thomas am Blasenstein, in ...