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A Royal Discovery

Digging through an ancient tomb near Saqqara, Egypt, French archaeologist Alain Zivie and his colleagues found something surprising: the bones of a lion.

For many years, historians have known that the Egyptians kept lions as pets and guards. But until Zivie's discovery, historians had never found lion remains preserved at Egypt's oldest sites.

In the latest edition of Nature magazine, Zivie explains that he and his team found the rare bones during a 2001 dig in a 3,000-year-old tomb, which belongs to a nurse of the famous boy-king Tutankhamen. "It confirms the status of the lion as a sacred animal," Zivie said of his team's discovery.

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