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 ...

Anubis is one of the most important gods in the Egyptian pantheon — not just for his service to mankind but also for his long tenure as a pillar of the religion from its earliest inception.

Titus Flavius Demetrius was a Roman citizen living in Egypt who wanted to be buried in the Egyptian ... mask was a substitute for the head of the deceased, giving the dead person the powers of ...

People in ancient Egypt constantly theorized about what happened to the souls of the dead in the afterlife, with most of the afterlife theories revolved around a soul's journey through the underworld ...