I just thought Niuserre must have been an exceptionally immature pharaoh.
I suppose, but I too have had the Breath of life bestowed on me by a dog and I would not put it so diplomatically.
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I get resurrected that way damn near every morning.
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Well, that sort of dog breath isn’t quite th’ same as what a Doggy God gives one w/an ankh.
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We had a sweet, wonderful Lurcher who’d growl, snarl, and snap whenever she was touched in a not-petting way when she was asleep. We could pet her head while she slept, and she’d wake up a little and smiiile, then small herself up even more & go back to sleep. Woe betide us when we’d gently bump her by mistake w/a foot while in bed! Instant growl/snarl/snap! 
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The dog that does the growl/snap thing when it’s nudged in the middle of the night sleeps near my wife’s side of the bed. The one that sleeps near my side of the bed likes to wake me up with a combination of hot wet tongue and ice-cold nose.
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We’d laugh when our dog did that, but it was scary!
That sounds like a potentially disturbing way to be awakened
The circled object in Amenemhat’s hand is not a bone for Anubis. I don’t remember ever finding out exactly what it is. It’s a fairly common object for rulers to be holding when they hang out with divinities.
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Woe be to the poor sap who can’t produce a treat in the presence of an immortal canine being that traverses between the land of the living and the dead.
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Is it at 4 am? Because this little crepuscular guy regularly performs a welfare check at 4 am. 
At least his breath doesn’t smell.
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Late night / early morning edition!
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Given the number of feral dogs that hang out at the pyramids, and around the city in general, I suspect it’s pretty common for one to go up and have a wander around. While the tourists are strictly limited to how high they can climb for liability and damage causing reasons, it’s wouldn’t be that hard to find a route up.
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Whoo let the dogs out?! 
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Always a thumbs up for any use of…
crepuscular (adj.)
figurative use, “dim, indistinct,” is attested from 1660s; literal use, “pertaining to or resembling twilight,” from 1755, from Latin crepusculum “twilight, dusk,” related to creper “obscure, uncertain,” from Proto-Italic *krepos “twilight,” which is of uncertain origin. It is not certain whether “twilight” or “obscure” was the original sense; de Vaan writes, “there is no known root of the form *krep- from which the extant meanings can be derived.”Especially of evening twilight, but 17c.-18c. also “like morning twilight” as symbolic of imperfect enlightenment. In zoology, “flying or appearing at sunset,” from 1826. An older (and lovelier-sounding) adjective form was crepusculine (1540s).
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Oh man, I still recall with horror a creative essay that I wrote for English class in junior high school. It went to great and romantic lengths describing the sun setting, and ended with a one-word sentence: “Crepuscule.” Somehow I had run across the word and decided to try to impress my teacher by using it. I didn’t even like the word, and still don’t, lol. No one would use it as a noun, and it sounds clunky anyway. Just writing “Twilight” would have fit the essay better.
But crepuscular is nice; as an adjective I appreciate it 
Hmm, better get back on topic…let’s see…How ‘bout those dogs there on those pyramids at Giza? You s’pose they’re up there at twilight?
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If the photographer had taken a half step to the left they could have made a really funny picture
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yes (photoshopped a bit), i think so… as to place the Sphinx right in front of the “Great Pyramid” (as opposed to the pyramid of Khafre) there would be some angular twisting away from their front ‘faces’. And the morning sun - that’s the morning, yes? would have the pyramid eclipse the Sphinx. Still, good use of “crepuscular”!
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It was a minor journalistic scandal when National Geographic photoshopped the positions of the pyramids for their cover photo back in 1982, and they apologized for it. But I guess the temptation to mess around with those photos is just too great for some photographers.
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I found the original image. The photo was cropped and lightened, but otherwise seems legit. How about that.
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