The many thousands of mummified animals that turned up at sacred sites throughout Egypt were just things to be cleared away to get at the good stuff. Few people studied them, and their importance ...

Sacred animals reflect spiritual beliefs, emphasizing humanity's connection to nature and the importance of coexistence.

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The Apis bulls were revered as sacred animals in Ancient Egypt and buried at Sakkara, a vast necropolis in the desert close to present-day Cairo. In 1851, the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette ...