Anubis is a god from Egyptian mythology during the Pharaonic history (±3100 BC - 400 AD).

Depicted as either a lying jackal or a man with the head of a jackal, Anubis was the god of mummification and the Underworld.

In the Nintendo GameBoy Color game Jim Henson's Muppets, Kermit the Frog has to destroy Anubis with paper airplanes in order to rescue Miss Piggy from her prison inside an Ancient Egyptian pyramid.