Bubastis
About Bubastis
Bubastis, also known in Arabic as Tell-Basta or in Egyptian as Per-Bast, was an ancient Egyptian city. Bubastis is often identified with the biblical Pi-Beseth. It was the capital of its own nome, located along the River Nile in the Delta region of Lower Egypt, and notable as a center of worship for the feline goddess Bastet, and therefore the principal depository in Egypt of mummies of cats.
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If your cat died, you shaved off your eyebrows, and you would take your cat to this holy city of cats. They found the mode of mummies, and they mummified cats to, like, a million of them. The city, I think, was called Bubastis.
from 3: No Such Thing As The Middle Ages, 2014-03-21 at 00:21:23 · read transcript
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That was a huge one recently. Yeah. The city, I think, was called Bubastis, named after, I think, I might have made that up. It was a definitely a city. They would bury the cats and they'd shave off their eyebrows. Anna's working overtime, by the way. Sorry. No. Well, they never want to interrupt. I turned 1,000 tabs up with a presentation. It's all good for me.
3: No Such Thing As The Middle Ages, 2014-03-21 · listen
Mummified cats are like a million of pounds. A huge one recently. Yeah. The city, I think, was called Bubastis. after the, I think, might have made that up, there's definitely a city, and they would bury the cats, and they shave off their eyes. It was working overtime, by the way. Sorry, no, sorry, no. But they never want to interrupt. I've got a thousand tabs up with information.
No Such Thing As The Middle Ages, 2014-03-21 · listen
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