此外，据《亡灵之书》记载，阿努比斯的另一项工作是站在二真殿里，衡量那些等待审判的人们的心脏。The human heart was balanced on the scale against Ma’at’s feather of truth. If the heart weighed more than the feather， the person’s identity would essentially cease to exist: the hybrid deity Ammit would eat the heart， and the soul would be destroyed. But if the heart weighed the same as the feather， the deceased would pass through the underworld and into the Afterlife.
古埃及象形文字的破译要从1799年发现罗塞塔石碑开始，法国军队的布沙尔中尉在修筑城防工事时，无意中发现一块有残缺的石碑，这是埃及希腊化时期，国王托勒密五世的一道诏令，上面刻有三种文字:古埃及圣书体文字、古埃及世俗体文字和希腊文。
