Anubis or Inpu, Anpu in Ancient Egyptian, is the God of the god of death, mummification, embalming, the afterlife, cemeteries, tombs, and the Underworld;

depicted as a canine or a man with a canine head.

Archeologists have identified Anubis's sacred animal as an Egyptian canid, the African golden wolf. The African wolf was formerly called the "African golden jackal", until a 2015 genetic analysis updated the taxonomy and the common name for the species. As a result, Anubis is often referred to as having a "jackal" head, but this "jackal" is now more properly called a "wolf".