The Egyptians are famous for their love towards animals, but the cats were sacred, and at one point they also had their own religious cult.

When a cat died, all the members of the grieving family shaved their eyebrows as a sign of mourning. If a cat was killed, even by mistake, the author was subjected to public atrocities and was sentenced to death by a horrible method: venomous snakes bite.

When a cat died, its worship involved its mummification and burial in a dedicated cemetery. Next to the cat’s mummy, a mummy of a mouse and a bowl of milk were inserted into the tomb.

Evidence that this habit was not temporary relies in a discovery in 1888 when a farmer unearthed over 80,000 cat mummies from a single cemetery.

Could cat-lovers today do the same?