Anubis was the Egyptian god of embalming and keeper of secrets. It was associated with mummification and protection of the dead and the journey to the afterlife. He was represented as a man with the head of a jackal, or in the shape of a jackal holding a flail in the crook of his arm and wearing a ribbon. In the Old Kingdom, he was the most important god, where he was associated with the burial of the pharaoh. It was very important because the Egyptians worshiped two things: 1. the gods and 2. the dead. The ancient Egyptians also believed in the afterlife. Another reason why Anubis was so important was because on your journey to the afterlife, he was waiting for you there. He takes your heart, weighs it and decides your fate in the underworld based on the weight of your heart compared to a feather. Bastet was the goddess of war in Lower Egypt, before unification. She is the goddess of joy, home and the warmth of the sun. Nowadays, she is depicted as a woman with the head of a cat. Before unification, Bastet was the lioness goddess, but this role diminished as Sekhmet, a similar deity, became more dominant in the Two Lands (Upper and Lower Egypt). In the 1st millennium BC, during the 18th Dynasty, when domestic cats were commonly kept as pets, Bastet began to be depicted as a woman with a cat's head, then by the end of the 22nd Dynasty she became the cat goddess. She was considered a protective and gentle goddess, and she appeared with a lioness' head in battle to protect the king. She was very important to the ancient Egyptians because she was the goddess of protection. Cleopatra VII or mainly known as Cleopatra was the last active pharaoh of ancient Egypt. She was a member...... middle of paper ...... Persian mūm meaning "wax". In early ancient Egypt, people buried the dead in pits in the desert. The dryness and heat of the desert dehydrated the body, creating a natural, realistic “mummy.” The ancient Egyptians believed that part of the human spirit was permanently linked to the viability of the body. Works Cited http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/gods/explore/main.html http://www.ancientegypt.co. United Kingdom/ http://cleopatravii.edublogs.org/sdvfjas-db/Discoveries – Ancient Egypt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_el-Medina http://www.ancient-egypt.co.uk /deir %20el%20medina/index.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horus http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/horus.htm http://www.egyptianmyths.net/horus. htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_Ra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khufu Imagining the Past – Egypt by John Malamhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxor