Archaeologists have discovered the skeleton of a once-mummified male lion at an Egyptian site dating to more than 2,000 years ago. This unexpected find confirms classical scholars’ suspicions, based on ancient inscriptions, that lions were revered as sacred animals in the latter stages of ancient Egyptian civilization, according to a report in the Jan. 15 Nature.
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