Canopic Jar-Anubis

Anubis, in Egyptian mythology, god of the dead. He was considered the inventor of embalming, the guardian of tombs, and a judge of the dead. The Egyptians believed that at the judgment he weighed the heart of the dead against the feather of truth. Anubis was an important god of the underworld among the ancient Egyptians. It was Anubis’ duty to attend to the ritual preparation of bodies, to weigh the heart of every person on the scale of justice, and to judge a person’s good and bad deeds on earth.