The Egyptian jackal, which may have been the inspiration for the Egyptian god Anubis, is actually not a jackal at all but a member of the wolf family. New genetic research in the open-access ...

The god of mummification, and the patron god of lost souls, Anubis is depicted (either as a jackal or as a man with a jackal’s head) in tombs as early as Egypt’s 1st dynasty.

In ancient Egypt, so many people worshiped Anubis, the jackal-headed god of death, that the catacombs next to his sacred temple once held nearly 8 million mummified puppies and grown dogs, a new ...

They included a face of Nut goddess, the mourning goddesses Isis and Nephthys, a winged scarab, the goddess Maat, the four Sons of Horus, the Apis bull and the Anubis jackal. The arrangement of this ...