Archaeologists Discover Dozens Of Cat Mummies

Are you familiar with "Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb" on Netflix? These cat mummies and statues were discovered at the same site.

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/11/666704847/archaeologists-discover-dozens-of-cat-mummies-100-cat-statues-in-ancient-tomb

Quote from the article:

And while cat mummies are fascinating, Catanzariti said they were also pretty common in ancient Egypt, where cats were bred for the purpose. In the 1890s, people from England went to Egypt and they collected all these mummies. One cargo was 180,000 of them.

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