Anubis Was Real: The Dogs Behind Egypt’s Most Famous God

In 1935, archaeologist George Reisner pulled a limestone tablet from the rubble near the Great Pyramid and found the name of a dog a pharaoh had buried with royal honors 4,300 years earlier — a name that outlasted the pharaoh’s own.

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