Saluki

Ancient Egyptian Dogs

As I have been an archeology buff for most of my life, my husband and I took a once-in-a-lifetime journey to Egypt. This incredible journey was astonishing, stupendous, glorious, transporting us back to the time of the ancients....However, on a related and exciting topic, many academic, longtime students of purebred dogs who have not had the opportunity to travel back in time to antiquity will marvel at the following photos. This statuette, possibly Greyhound, that I saw in the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities, and the carving and color renderings of the ancient Saluki and Pharaoh Hounds in the Funerary Complex of Djoser at Saqqara are extraordinary......