A white, medium-sized dog chased several birds up to the peak of the 481-foot-tall Great Pyramid of Khufu last week in a scene recorded by American paraglider Marshall Mosher, who was taking a morning flight over the ancient structures with other members of his group, CNN reports.
“We noticed something running back and forth on top of the pyramid. One person thought it was a mountain lion,” Mosher told CNN, adding he was a little worried the dog would be trapped. “Maybe he was stuck up there.” Mosher later saw a video from another tourist of the dog making its way down the structure, its corporeal body possibly now fully possessed by the spirit of Anubis, the feared ancient dog god of the underworld, closely associated with death and funerary rites.