Le Chat dans l'Egypte ancienne. Grèce L’Ifao publie ici pour la

L’Ifao publie ici pour la première fois l’ensemble du manuscrit et des illustrations que Bruyère avait remis à l’éditeur

the pictorial techniques using color

Excerpt from the Asian Journal (Year 1923)

les journaux

this Selection of Writings was edited by Denis Rousset with the collaboration of Philippe Gauthier and Ivana Savalli-Lestrade

Le Chat dans l'Egypte ancienne. Grèce L’Ifao publie ici pour laThe undisputed aristocrat of domestic animals, the cat can be proud of its glorious ancestry. Most of the cats we know today are considered descendants of Egyptian felines, thus constituting a living link between the Egypt of the Pharaohs and the contemporary world. The wild cat was domesticated as early as 2000 BC but did not become a major subject of Egyptian funerary frescoes until 500 years later, during the New Kingdom. Worshipped as a