They were known in ancient Egypt as Mau (Or some variation of this) meaning he or she who mews.
Of course these days the people of Egypt speak Arabic, and the Arabic word for cat is something like qitta.
I am not kidding you. the Ancient Egyptian word for cat was meow
the cats name is Asia
It's called the Sphinx. Answer: The goddess Bast - or as she is sometimes called Bastet - is the protectress of the two lands - the Red Land and the Black Land or Kemet. Her statue is the cat.
there are more then 10 million cat mummys in Egypt
It depended where in Egypt you were, and perhaps when in ancient Egypt, as not all Egyptians worshiped Bast, the cat goddess.
It was the cat. The ancient egyptians worshpted cats as gods. They had a god names Bast that was in the form of a cat.
the cat
Sphinx
The cat that is most closely related to the cats of ancient Egypt is the North African wild-cat. The domestic cat closest to the ancient Egyptian cats is the Egyptian Mao. :D
Back in Ancient Egypt, all cat's were very valuable, so I think they are all equal, still....=PaTcHeDsTaR (from Quizilla)
Sphinx
a cat is my guess