#it's Humanising History Week right now lads

[rudjedet]

Sorry to add to your long list of asks, but:

I can haz 'Thutmose loved his cat' story?

Oh don't worry, I love talking about Thutmose and his cat!

Anyway, so crown prince Thutmose was the son of Amenhotep III and would have succeeded him had he not died (we don't know what of) prior to Amenhotep III himself. We don't know a lot about Thutmose, but we do know he loved his cat so much that, upon her death, she got her own cat-sized limestone sarcophagus.

It even has Nephthys and Isis portrayed at the head- and foot-ends, just like a human sarcophagus would have:

The cat's name was Ta-miut, and she will be remembered because of the love a prince who died ~3300 years ago had for her.

#it's Humanising History Week right now lads #egyptology #ancient egypt #crown prince thutmose #odds are he loved her so much because he might have been disabled himself and petting cats is known to alleviate chronic pain #so #totally take that with a grain of salt tho since it has absolutely no basis in historical evidence apart from him dying young