This mask would have been worn by a priest during funeral rituals.Mask in the form of the jackal head Anubis, ancient Egyptian god of embalming and the dead. It is made of cartonnage, layers of ...

Anubis is one of the most important gods in the Egyptian pantheon — not just for his service to mankind but also for his long tenure as a pillar of the religion from its earliest inception.

Anubis: A jackal-headed deity representing the god of death, who would guide souls to the afterlife. Osiris: God of the underworld. Djed: An ancient Egyptian symbol meaning stability, which ...

On this section of papyrus, the jackal-headed Anubis, balances the heart of the deceased against the feather of Ma'at. duncan1890 / Getty Images Egyptian gods and goddesses were an essential part ...

People in ancient Egypt constantly theorized about what happened to the souls of the dead in the afterlife, with most of the afterlife theories revolved around a soul's journey through the underworld ...

Babi watched over his troupe of baboons, Ihy, would charm with his beautiful tunes, Thoth was the scribe god of reading and writing! Sekhmet the lioness, war god, she liked fighting! Anubis took ...

Its skull resembles that of Anubis, the ancient Egyptian jackal-headed god of the dead after which it was named. The ancestors of modern whales developed from deer-like mammals that lived on land ...