Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a rare mummy menagerie, including the wrapped remains of cats, crocodiles, scarabs, cobras and two lion cubs.

The discovery was made in the tomb of a 7th century royal priest in Saqqara, south of Cairo, according to Khaled El-Enany, Egypt’s minister of antiquities.

The collection — 25 small wooden mummy caskets adorned with hieroglyphics, along with 75 more boxes filled with wooden and bronze statues of Egyptian deities — could make-up a “museum by itself,” El-Enany said Saturday.

The archeologists report that the artifacts date back to the 36th dynasty, considered ancient Egypt’s renaissance era.

Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities shared information about the findings on the Facebook over the this weekend. The most extraordinary pieces, according to the ministry’s secretary general Mostafa Waziri, is the five preserved big cats, which CT-scans revealed were lion cubs.

Researchers pointed out that this would have been considered prized and extremely rare pets during that period, pointing to a 2004 discovery of a lion skeleton by French Egyptologist Alain Zivie, who then proved the lion’s high regard in ancient Egypt.

The “meticulously mummified” animals were found buried alongside dozens of animal statuettes made of sandstone, wood and bronze, such as 75 cats of various shapes and sizes; sculptures of the apis bull deity, a mongoose, ibis, falcon and the god Anubis, formed with the body of a man and head of a jackal.

The dig also unearthed a “large” stone-carved scarab beetle, a sacred symbol of rebirth in ancient Egypt, plus two more small smaller versions made of wood and sandstone, as well as several other amulets made of wood and clay.

Deities featured in the cache included 73 bronze figurines of the god Osiris; six wooden statues of god Ptah-Soker, 11 wooden and ceramic statues of the lioness god Sekhmet; and goddess Neith wearing the crown of Lower Egypt.

The animals remains were found at the Saqqara necropolis near the Giza pyramids, which also houses the 4,400-year-old, “exceptionally well preserved” tomb of ancient priest Wahtye, according to the Ministry of Antiquities, and the recently excavated mummification workshop dating as far back as 664 B.C.