As you know, the ancient Egyptians mummified the human dead. They thought so highly of cats that they mummified them too—or, at least, upper-class Egyptians could afford to do so. Since the
Egyptians believed that the
afterlife was essentially like earthly life, they mummified mice to place in the tombs as food for the cat mummies. In 1890, over 300,000 cat mummies were found at one site in Egypt. Most were in cases of engraved wood, with the bodies wrapped in colored bandages. The world’s museums display cat mummies along with the human mummies.
