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Bubastis
Today
Tell Basta, near Zagazig
What it was
The city of Bastet. Herodotus describes its annual festival as the largest and most exuberant in Egypt, with hundreds of thousands travelling by boat, singing and drinking on the way. Vast cat cemeteries have been excavated here.
When it mattered most
Twenty-second Dynasty, when its rulers governed Egypt
What is actually there now
A ruin field with a scattered temple, and a cat cemetery.
Worshipped here
Elsewhere in Delta