This Valentine’s Day, as we exchange stylised hearts in celebration of love, we might pause to remember that the power of the ...

In this religious "final judgment" ceremony, it was believed that Anubis would place a human heart on golden scales with a white feather of purity on the other end. If a soul passed this test ...

Sekhmet had the head of a lioness. Anubis was linked to mummification and the afterlife. He performed the weighing of the heart ceremony, which decided whether or not a person could pass into the ...