Animal mummification in ancient Egypt was a carefully organized practice that connected spiritual beliefs with economic activity. This wasn't a rare or occasional ritual but a large, sustained ...

Many animal shelters in Egypt are struggling after an increase in the prices of imported food and medicine, and a fall in donations, fueled by the devaluation of the Egyptian pound.

Cats have long been cherished as mysterious and magical animals. In ancient Egypt, they were considered sacred, often associated with protection, luck, and divine power. Modern studies and ...

Ibis Coffin contains a mummified ibis from the fourth century B.C. Photo Credit: Gavin Ashworth, Brooklyn Museum "Soulful Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt" is on display at the Bellagio ...

While attending the OIE Global Animal Welfare Conference in Cairo, I was fortunate to meet Amina Tharwat Abaza, founder of SPARE, the Society for Protection of Animal Rights in Egypt. Colleague ...

DONALDSON TAKES A LOOK INSIDE. THE MOST COMMON TYPE OF ARTIFACT FOUND IN EXCAVATIONS IN ANCIENT EGYPT IS ACTUALLY MUMMIFIED ANIMALS. THERE WERE 7 MILLION DOGS THAT WERE MUMMIFIED, FOUND SO FAR, 4 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Decades before Darwin, there was a debate over transformism, the idea that species change over time. Two colleagues at the French ...

Ritual use of animal sacrifice is not unusual in Ancient Egypt and animals were frequently mummified throughout the Old, Middle, New Kingdom and onward. But a new discovery at the port of Berenike on ...

Shocked by the suffering of work horses and donkeys, Chichester-local Kim, alongside her aunt Julie Wartenberg, felt they had no choice but to act. Using Julie’s retirement funds, they founded Animal ...