Child buried with 142 dogs in Ancient Egyptian Necropolis

In recent excavations, the researchers found a burial of an 8-year-old child, placed on the remains of 142 dogs in the same grave. Zoologist, Galina Belova, has examined the dogs, concluding that they all died at the same time with no evidence of violence.

Killed by a lightning strike while herding 142 dogs ?

''... the child was found with a linen bag placed on their head .''

Their head ?

Died or killed as an outcast (linen bag on head like the supposedly executed person) then buried with dogs as not fit to be offered an ordinary human peasant send off?

This was probably an ancient Egyptian Dog Civilization accidentally adopting a human child for study.

Too many questions not enough info. Just breaking the story down.

I've never seen a wild pack of 142 dogs let alone that many in the same place except for a dog show?

How is it a grave? What if its a pit where the preists threw the sacrificed dogs or diseased dogs.

Hood over head, we all know about that. Child may also have been diseased or was a sacrifice to rid the village of the diseased dogs.

Whatever the case, we are crueler to each other and dogs today then back then.

No mention on the type of dog either, weird.

Hard to make heads or tails from this story.

I think it likely that the child was the son of someone prominent and he loved dogs and kept them. When he died, all the people were required by his father (some sort of chieftain, no doubt) to make tribute by sacrificing their dogs so the child would have playmates in the afterlife.

I'd rather exercise my imagination than damage my knees and back.

Would be nice to find out what breed the dogs were. But I suppose that‘s asking too much of academia.

Anubis deity was a an Egyptian Psychopomp (Soul Guide) to the underworld. As above, so below creedo.

Egypt has a very sullied/blurrymuddy/opaque twistorical past. I suspect by design. Anubis (Dog) is a Greek word origin but used by Egypt ? Egypt used “Anpu“ Hmmm.

I know there was way more sociocultural interaction the ancient trade routes than we are indoctrinated to believe. Rome sacked Egypt & Greece & captured the spoils of war Knowledge/Gnosis of those empires. Phoenicians were a maritime Sea faring culture who would have been trading unique items from afar such as a Malta Blushing Dog, Haoma/SOMA/Bhang, Iron, Minerals, Royal Purple Dye for textiles etc. as there was no Fed-Ex/DHL. We know Greece’s schools were top shelf & Pythagoras (the polymath) was traveling himself absorbing & embracing cultures & different schools of thought. [Link] - [Link]
Anubis (/əˈnjuːbɪs/; Ancient Greek: Ἄνουβις), also known as Inpu, Inpw, Jnpw, or Anpu in Ancient Egyptian (Coptic: ⲁⲛⲟⲩⲡ, romanized: Anoup) is the god of funerary rites, protector of graves, and guide to the underworld, in ancient Egyptian religion, usually depicted as a canine or a man with a canine head.

The Pharaoh Hound Origin is Malta - ancient "Blushing Dog" of Malta

is one of several breeds with a legitimate claim of most-ancient breed and appears to have changed little in the last 3,000 years. The breed bears an uncanny resemblance to the jackal god Anubis and to dogs depicted on the tombs of the Egyptian pharaohs, and later, dogs featured in ancient Greek art. Phoenician traders may have introduced the dogs from Greece and North Africa to the islands of Malta and Gozo, where they became essentially secluded from the rest of the world. Here they flourished as rabbit dogs, or Kelb-tal Fenek. The Pharaoh Hound is now the National Dog of Malta. In the 1960s, the breed was rediscovered and imported to England and later America. The AKC recognized it in 1983. [Link] - [Link]
Anubis: Ancient Egyptian Dog-Headed God of the Afterlife Anubis is the Egyptian god who is depicted with the head of dog and the body of a man. Anubis was believed to have presided over the death process and was closely associated with mummification, tombs, cemeteries, dogs and the underworld. The Egyptians believed that at the climax of one’s underworld journey, one would be judged by Anubis and his relative Osiris, Anubis, Egyptian God of the Dead and the Underworld Xolotl – The Underworld Dog God of the Aztecs At the final judgment, Anubis and Osiris would weigh the individual’s heart against the feather of Maat (truth). If their heart was too heavy with selfish/wicked deeds, then their soul would be discarded and fed to a monstrous crocodile god. It’s noteworthy that the mythology of Anubis seems to have suffered a demotion as his cult became eclipsed by that of Osiris. In the oldest versions, Anubis is the son of the solar god Ra, but following the surge in popularity of the Osiris cult, the birth of Anubis was revised, making him the illegitimate son and guardian of Isis. [Link]
Robert Temple has a theory that the Sphinx was originally Anubis & somewhere in Egypt’s twistory it was modified & redesigned as a Sphinx. I’m leaning that direction the more I research, the more confirmation of that notion.