In pre-Osiris myths of the Old Kingdom of Egypt, Anubis was believed to be the son of Ra (the sun god) and Haset (the cow goddess). For the sake of continuity, the arrival of Osiris as the premier ...

But starting in the eighth century B.C., Nubian pharaohs from a Kushite kingdom, now in northern Sudan, ruled Egypt. For more than a hundred years, they revived and adapted ancient Egyptian ...