How did the scads of life-size sculptures of female figures in your mother’s trademark outfit come about? They’re cat beds! If you look very closely, you’ll see a lot of cat hair on them.

Also in the tomb were 100 gilded wooden cat statues, as well as a bronze statue of Bastet, the goddess of cats. The discoveries were made at a newly discovered tomb in Saqqara, the site of a ...

According to Hürriyet Daily News, sculptor Seval Şahin “voluntarily erected the sculpture demonstrating ... The Persian cat is remembered in a 2009 bronze by Bogdan Mazur on a boulder outside ...