Egypt unveiled 75 wooden and bronze statues and five lion cub mummies decorated with hieroglyphics on Saturday at the Saqqara necropolis near the Giza pyramids in Cairo.
Mummified cats, cobras, crocodiles and scarabs were also unearthed among the well-preserved mummies and other objects discovered recently.
The Antiquities Ministry announced the find at the foot of the Bastet Temple, dedicated to the worship of cats among ancient Egyptians, in the vast necropolis.
According to Antiquities Minister Khaled El-Enany, the artifacts belong to the 26th Dynasty which dates back to the seventh century BC.
Other artifacts uncovered in the dig included statues of an Apis bull, a mongoose, an ibis, a falcon and the ancient Egyptian god Anubis in animal form.
