On a nearby papyrus, painted 1,000 years later for a priest named Hor, one sees exactly the same balance and the same heart, the ceremony once again presided over by the jackal-headed god Anubis.

Thoth: God of writing, wisdom and magic. Anubis: A jackal-headed deity representing the god of death, who would guide souls to the afterlife. Osiris: God of the underworld.

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.

When I was younger, the story of Anubis and his golden scales fascinated me. The Weighing of the Heart. Mythology says the great jackal headed god would weigh the heart against a single ostrich ...

Mythology is rife with examples of chimerical creatures, from Greek centaurs to the jackal-headed Egyptian god Anubis. Even now, we remain fascinated with beings, such as the mythological Sasquatch or ...