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 ...

One commenter stated, “Not a dog. That is the egiptian [Egyptian] God Anubis. He is considered the guide of the dead in the afterlife and the protector of the tombs. That’s why it is over the ...

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 ...