Anubis
c. 2600 BCE – 400 CEattested
Egypt
- Egyptian
Jackal-headed embalmer who invented mummification and supervised the weighing of the heart. Before Osiris displaced him, he was the original lord of the dead.
Known for
- embalmer of the dead
- weighing the heart
- the jackal at the necropolis
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.