- Zagazig, Az by Donovan Munoz
... was established as a transportation and market center in the mid-19th cent., when cotton cultivation was spreading in the delta. Nearby are the ruins of the ancient city of Bubastis.
- Bubastis by Kate Warren
... Persian conquest (343 B.C.). Bubastis was the center of the worship of the lion-headed (or cat-headed) goddess Bast. In the time of Herodotus it had an annual Saturnalia, an orgiastic festival honoring the god Saturn. As Pi-beseth, Bubastis is mentioned in Ezek. 30.17. Excavations were made in 1886, 1887, and 1906. Among the finds were a chapel of the VI dynasty ...
- Bast by Joan Ellis
Bast is either masculine or feminine given nameAfrican: Of the City of BubastisEgyptian Mythology:...
- Nekhtnebf I by Alyssa Henderson
... He built splendid temples at Bubastis, Memphis, Abydos, Al Karnak, and Edfu. His son, Tachos, while invading Syria, was overthrown byNekhtnebf II (reigned 359–343). Nekhtnebf II built an all-granite temple at Horbeit, a kiosk at Philae, and statues at Abydos and Bubastis. Persia had now recovered its strength and bent all its efforts to reconquer Egypt. With ...
- Bast by Aliyah Craig
Bast., ancient Egyptian cat goddess. At first a goddess of the home, she later became known as a goddess of war. The center of her cult was at Bubastis. Her name also appears as Ubast.