Why did the ancient Egyptians use kittens to make sacrifices?

A new study shows that, two thousand years ago, Egyptians bought cat mummies from cattle farmers to serve as sacrificial sacrifices for the goddess Bastet.

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In Egypt around 332 BC until 30 BC, cats were raised near a special temple to be used for embalming and used as sacrifices for the gods.

Kittens are raised to make mummies for the gods
in ancient Egypt thousands of years ago (Photo: Livescience)

Through analysis, X-rayed mummies of Egyptian cats were bought from a mummy collector in the 18th century at the National Archaeological Museum in Parma, Italy, the researchers discovered, the This cat is embalmed very small. They are just kittens about 5-6 months old. Even kittens have been sacrificed in large numbers. Cause they are very suitable for embalming.

"The fact that cats are very young suggests that they are one of the animals created by the breeder to embalm ," said researcher Giacomo Gnudi, a professor at Parma University.

The mummified cat mummies are as tight as possible, and they are placed in a sitting posture before embalming, similar to the cats sitting to describe the ancient hieroglyphics. Through the process of mummification with a sitting posture, some cat bones were broken. There is a hole in the cat's skull that could be a way to kill cats or it can be used to drain the brain in a skull while embalming a cat.