It’s difficult to imagine prides of lions roaming Egypt today, but as late as 1000 B.C. the big cats idled on the banks of the Nile—and some even lounged in palaces as domesticated pets for ...

Lion Mummy Found In Egyptian Tomb. January 14, 2004 / 3:22 PM EST / AP ... The lion may have been considered an incarnation of the god Mahes, the son of Bastet, Zivie said.

Mummified Lion Discovered in Egypt. By ABC News. January 13, 2004, 12:25 PM.

For Ms. el-Helw, though, lions are a family business. Her grandmother Mahassen was the Arab world’s first female lion tamer, and her father, Ibrahim, was a star of Egypt’s state-run National ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a rare mummy menagerie, including the wrapped remains of cats, crocodiles, scarabs, cobras and two lion cubs. The discovery was made in the tomb of a 7th ...

The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities revealed details of a newly discovered cache of sacred animal mummies, which includes two lion cubs as well as several crocodiles, birds, and cats.

Two mummified lions, dating back about 2,600 years, have been discovered in a tomb full of cat statues and cat mummies in Saqqara, the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities announced today (Nov. 23) at ...

Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities says local archeologists have unearthed the mummy of an unusually large animal, most likely a lion or lioness. The ministry said on Monday the mummy was excavated ...

Archaeologists found the skeleton of a once-mummified lion at an Egyptian site dating to more than 2,000 years ago, confirming suspicions that lions were revered as sacred animals.

Jan. 15 -- Probing a tomb full of mummified cats, archaeologist Alain Zivie and his team recently came across a startling find: preserved bones from a much larger feline. "It was a lion," Zivie ...