Anubis was known for weighing one's soul against a feather to determine the fate of the deceased in the afterlife. tan_tan / Shutterstock People in ancient Egypt constantly theorized about what ...

Sheets of gold have been discovered gilding the tongues of more than a dozen mummified Egyptians near modern Al-Bahansa, ...

This mask would have been worn by a priest during funeral rituals.Mask in the form of the jackal head Anubis, ancient Egyptian ... nose and ears of the mummy were touched to restore the senses.

Sekhmet had the head of a lioness. Anubis was linked to mummification and the afterlife. He performed the weighing of the heart ceremony, which decided whether or not a person could pass into the ...