Anubis, the ancient Egyptian god of the dead and protector of the gates to the underworld, was said to oversee every aspect of the process of dying and mummification.

He was the scribe for the other gods and the ancient Egyptians believed that he invented hieroglyphs. Osiris was the god of the underworld and the afterlife. He has a pharaoh’s beard and his ...

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 ...

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 ...

The gilded palate prosthetics are believed by experts to have been inserted so that the dead would be able to speak with Osiris, the god of the underworld, after their death. The golden nails are ...