Oh, and of knives. And devouring captives. Vengeance against enemies is a major feature in the most terrifying of Egyptian gods. Either a lion or a caracal, Pakhet was a regional cat goddess.

Instead, these Egyptian gods lived and ruled in “Celestial Heliopolis ... was first linked to the lion or desert-sand cat. However, as humans domesticated cats, Bast became exclusively ...

But while the Egyptian gods are no longer worshipped ... This pharaoh, ruler of earth, was protected by the lion-headed goddess Sekhmet, who also nourished him in the form of Hathor, the cow ...

Languages: English, Spanish Archaeologists have discovered a huge cache of Ancient Egyptian artefacts—including mummified lion cubs ... a falcon and the Egyptian god Anubis in the form of ...

A French archaeologist says his discovery of the first preserved lion skeleton in an ancient Egyptian tomb demonstrates ... considered an incarnation of the god Mahes, the son of Bastet, Zivie ...

For the first time, archaeologists have discovered a preserved lion skeleton in an ancient Egyptian tomb ... been considered an incarnation of the god Mahes, the son of Bastet, Zivie said.

Archaeologists had never found any evidence of such practices, but they would be consistent with the ancient Egyptian belief that lions were incarnations of powerful gods, the investigators say.