We all know the story: cats in Ancient Egypt were supposedly venerated as gods. But reality is quite a bit more complicated. In this episode of SideQuest, we'll see what it was really like to be a cat in Ancient Egypt!



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Further Reading:

"Bandages, Bitumen, Bodies and Business" by Chris Elliott https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper...
https://www.arce.org/resource/goddess...
https://www.science.org/content/artic...