Anubis ( or ; ) is the Greek name for a jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion.

* Canopic jar, ancient Egyptian vessel for storing organs removed by mummification procedure

It was one of the world's first health resorts ( for Herod the Great ), and it has been the supplier of a wide variety of products, from balms for Egyptian mummification to potash for fertilizers.

* Anubis ( Ancient Greek: Ἄνουβις ) is the Egyptian name for a jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion.

Egyptian religion posited the survival of the soul in connection with the survival of a physical receptacle for the soul-hence mummification and portraiture flourished as a vital part of Egyptian religion.

Although some historians claim that ancient Egyptian society was a “ death cult ” because of its elaborate tombs and mummification rituals, it was really quite the opposite.

Cedar of Lebanon pine cone showing flecks of resin as used in the mummification of Pharaoh | Egyptian Pharaohs.

In order to preserve the remains, the ancient Egyptian priests had to devise a system of artificial mummification.

The mineral was used in Egyptian mummification because it absorbs water and behaves as a drying agent.

The ancient Egyptians used its resin in mummification, and its sawdust has been found in the tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs.

At this time many more advances in the general medical field were developed based off the study of Egyptian mummification practice, which led to greater knowledge of the hemostatic process.

However, because mummification had been primarily an Egyptian practice, they had not encountered any mummies in Persia before.

CAT and X-ray scans in Agha Khan Hospital indicated that the mummification had not been made following ancient Egyptian custom-for example, the heart had been removed along with the rest of the internal organs, whereas the heart of a genuine Egyptian mummy would normally be left inside the body.

It also comprises a number of interbraided strands — including the plot line, Egypt's cycle of seasons, the country's geography and monuments, and ancient Egyptian practices ( e. g. mummification rituals and techniques ) — each of which rises to prominence at appropriate moments.

Anubis was the ancient Egyptian god associated with mummification and burial rituals.

* Mummy # The Egyptian mummification process

* Egyptian mummification

As a revered animal and one important to Egyptian society and religion, some cats received the same mummification after death as humans.

Notable Egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass recently disclosed that ancient Egyptian mummification practices from the third to fifth dynasties utilized a chemical compound molecularly similar to cosmoline.

The Proto-Sinatic or Proto Canaanite script and the Ugaritic script were the first scripts with limited number of signs, in contrast to the other widely used writing systems at the time, Cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Linear B.

* Asa, alternate term for naboot ; a staff used in Egyptian stick fencing

i. 24 ) refers to the ' potent names ' used by Egyptian sages, Persian Magi, and Indian Brahmins, signifying deities in the several languages.

The hieroglyphic system for Egyptian numerals, like the later Roman numerals, descended from tally marks used for counting.

In 1801 the demoralised remains of the French army in Egypt were defeated by a British Expeditionary Force ; the Royal Navy used their dominance in the Mediterranean to invade Egypt without the fear of ambush while anchored off the Egyptian coast.

* The balance used in the Weighing of the Heart in Egyptian mythology.

Concrete additives have been used since Roman and Egyptian times, when it was discovered that adding volcanic ash to the mix allowed it to set under water.

Classical Arabic did not have plain in its native words ( the palatalized form or is believed to have been used ), but the sound is standard in Modern Standard Arabic in Egypt, so as is the standard sound in Egyptian Arabic, in which loanwords are normally transcribed with ⟨⟩ ( Gīm ).

Ancient Egyptian and Middle Eastern peoples also used honey for embalming the dead.

The term " ideogram " is commonly used to describe logographs in writing systems such as Egyptian hieroglyphs, Sumerian cuneiform and Chinese characters.

He wrote an encyclopedia of architecture that was used as the main bases and as guidance for Egyptian builders thousands of years after his death.

It is known that Semitic people working in Egypt c. 2000 BC borrowed a hieroglyph for " water " that was first used for an alveolar nasal (), because of the Egyptian word for water, n-t.

This account further testifies that all Egyptian temples of Isis thereafter contained a rod, in remembrance of that used for Moses ' miracles.

For example, Count Cagliostro used it to " raise dead spirits " in Egyptian masonry.

One of the most common hieroglyphs, snake, was used in Egyptian writing to stand for a sound like the English ⟨ J ⟩, because the Egyptian word for " snake " was djet.

The herb is also widely used in Turkish, Palestinian, Lebanese, Egyptian, Syrian, Greek, Portuguese, Spanish, Philippine and Latin American cuisines.

The earliest recorded trace of a recapitulation theory is from the Egyptian Pharaoh Psamtik I ( 664 – 610 BCE ), who used it as an hypothesis on the origin of language.

Pharaoh ( or ) is a title used in many modern discussions of the rulers of all Ancient Egyptian dynasties.

The modern technique of papyrus production used in Egypt for the tourist trade was developed in 1962 by the Egyptian engineer Hassan Ragab using plants that had been reintroduced into Egypt in 1872 from France.

Major advances in the decoding were: recognition that the stone offered three versions of the same text ( 1799 ); that the demotic text used phonetic characters to spell foreign names ( 1802 ); that the hieroglyphic text did so as well, and had pervasive similarities to the demotic ( Thomas Young, 1814 ); and that, in addition to being used for foreign names, phonetic characters were also used to spell native Egyptian words ( Champollion, 1822 – 1824 ).

Ancient Egyptian temples were later used as quarries for new construction, and the Rosetta Stone probably was re-used in this manner.

The word " basalt " is ultimately derived from Late Latin basaltes, misspelling of L. basanites " very hard stone ," which was imported from Ancient Greek βασανίτης ( basanites ), from βάσανος ( basanos, " touchstone ") and originated in Egyptian bauhun " slate ".

The Hebrew word for brazier is of Egyptian origin, suggesting an invention imported from Egypt, perhaps during the Exodus.

Some material for decoration was imported: Egyptian granite columns and sphinxes, fine marble for revetments and some capitals produced in workshops in the Proconnesos.

** Egyptian Naqada period ( tombs, graves ), ( imported ).