Anubis was an ancient Egyptian god of the dead, represented as a jackal or a man with the head of a jackal. Anubis is sometimes also called Anpu.

In the Early Dynastic period and the Old Kingdom, Anubis had a preeminent position as lord of the dead. He was associated with the funerary cult an...

In his later role as the “conductor of souls,” the Greco-Roman world sometimes identified Anubis with Hermes in the composite deity Hermanubis.