Thousands of years ago, the Egyptians worshiped a God known as Anubis. He was the god of death and resurrection and is ...

Anubis was known for weighing one's soul against a feather to determine the fate of the deceased in the afterlife. tan_tan / Shutterstock ...

Other Egyptian deities were associated with the dead, such as Anubis, Horus, Hathor and Isis. However, it would also be inaccurate to call any of them a god of death. The jackal-headed Anubis is a ...

For centuries, Egyptian royalty guarded ... The Book of the Dead helped Egyptians prepare for the afterlife where Osiris, god of the underworld, would judge them. In 1842, the German Egyptologist ...

An exhibition at the Getty reveals the Egyptian Book of the Dead ... a statue of the god Anubis, the jackal-headed guide to the underworld; crocodiles on a Book of the Dead scroll known as ...

3 Roles Anubis Played in Egyptian Mythology Anubis is the most actively worshipped deity in ancient Egyptian death rituals. From the earliest days of the religion, he was respected as the god of the ...