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We must mention that the Egyptian word for “cat” was spelled “miw.” How it was vocalized we may safely leave to the imagination of any cat-owning reader.
Dec 12, 2025 08:25AM
Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt

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“I must differ with the scholar who deduced that Thutmose must have died young, since no grown man would lavish such affection on a cat. (He is probably a dog person.)”
Dec 12, 2025 08:24AM
Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt


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