Ancient Egypt continues to fascinate us today — thousands of years after those magnificent pyramids were built. And while plenty of mysteries still surround this distant era — just how did they build the pyramids with no modern equipment? — there’s one thing we know for sure: the pharaohs and their people loved cats. They weren’t so different from us in that respect. But this obsession was taken to lengths that are totally beyond the understanding of us 21st-century folk.