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- Sandro Vannini's Photography - Anubis Shrine And "anubis Fetishes"
Heritage Key Anubis is the jackal-headed god for the afterlife and mummification, who is seen as a key figure for a Pharaoh to pass into the afterlife. The jackal was associated with associated with death and burials in Ancient Egyptian time for their...
- A Look At How Egypt Has Influenced Western Pop Culture
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- Exhibition: 1,000 Years Of Offerings To Egyptian Jackal Deity
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/03/03/10108415.html"A thousand years' worth of offerings to an ancient Egyptian jackal deity are the subject of an exhibition that opened on Thursday at Cairo's Egyptian Museum. The exhibition, Anubis, Upwawet...
- Exhibition: Anubis, Upwawet And Other Deities
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17403311/"A thousand years’ worth of offerings to an ancient Egyptian jackal god are the subject of an exhibition that opened on Thursday at Cairo’s Egyptian Museum. The exhibition, Anubis, Upwawet and Other Deities, is...
Egypt
Egyptian jackal is actually ancient wolf
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The Egyptian jackal, which may have been the inspiration for the Egyptian god Anubis, is actually not a jackal at all but a member of the wolf family. New genetic research in the open-access journal PLoS ONE finds that the Egyptian jackal is Africa's only member of the gray wolf family. The new wolf, dubbed by researchers as the African wolf, is most closely related to the Himalayan wolf.
"We could hardly believe our own eyes when we found wolf DNA that did not match anything in GenBank," lead author, Dr Eli Rueness, said in a press release. GenBank is an open-access nucleotide database.
The genetic data also points to an early origin for the Egyptian jackal/African wolf.
- Egyptian Bones Could Help Solve Canine Conundrum
Spiegel Online () With photos. Scientists are still trying to explain how the gray wolf could evolve into over 400 breeds of dogs, ranging from the pug to the pinscher. One aid in solving this riddle has been found in an unlikely place: a giant animal...
- Sandro Vannini's Photography - Anubis Shrine And "anubis Fetishes"
Heritage Key Anubis is the jackal-headed god for the afterlife and mummification, who is seen as a key figure for a Pharaoh to pass into the afterlife. The jackal was associated with associated with death and burials in Ancient Egyptian time for their...
- A Look At How Egypt Has Influenced Western Pop Culture
Star-Telegram (Andrew Marton) With today’s splashy opening of the Dallas Museum of Art’s blockbuster exhibit "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs," it would be shortsighted to associate Egypt and King Tut only with things ancient, archaeological...
- Exhibition: 1,000 Years Of Offerings To Egyptian Jackal Deity
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/03/03/10108415.html"A thousand years' worth of offerings to an ancient Egyptian jackal deity are the subject of an exhibition that opened on Thursday at Cairo's Egyptian Museum. The exhibition, Anubis, Upwawet...
- Exhibition: Anubis, Upwawet And Other Deities
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17403311/"A thousand years’ worth of offerings to an ancient Egyptian jackal god are the subject of an exhibition that opened on Thursday at Cairo’s Egyptian Museum. The exhibition, Anubis, Upwawet and Other Deities, is...