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Anubis: God of the Dead and the Old Kingdom's Underworld
Anubis, the ancient Egyptian god of the dead and protector of the gates to the underworld, was said to oversee every aspect ...
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Mummies with gold tongues and fingernails uncovered in Egyptian tomb where they ‘spoke to God of the underworld’
Anubis: A jackal-headed deity representing the god of death, who would guide souls to the afterlife. Osiris: God of the underworld. Djed: An ancient Egyptian symbol meaning stability, which ...
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MIT’s (mostly) secret society
Yale has Skull and Bones. Dartmouth has Sphinx. Harvard has the Porcellian Club. And for more than half a century, MIT had ...
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Ramesses III
This effigy of the king shows him in the form of an Egyptian god Sokar-Osiris who protected the gateway to the afterlife. The Egyptians believed the deceased king to be the embodiment of the god ...
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Ancient mummies with golden tongues unearthed in Egypt
It is thought the dead were given gold foil amulets shaped like tongues so that they could speak before the court of the god Osiris in the ... After her death, Egypt fell under Roman domination.