06/07/2026
Got the solving mystery's ball rolling again.
Anubis Amulet Solved
AI solves decades old mystery of the "Anubis" Amulet...
Given the amulet and asked to figure out what is was and what it was for. And if it was Magic... We narrowed its design down to either the Scottie Dog or Ancient Anubis.
To know for sure we faced expensive paint tests to determine its age and composition. But the early tests indicated steel and really good paint. So we ruled out very ancient for relatively modern.
But still who made it and what was it for ? A good luck charm, or a curse ? Why did it look like Anubis ?
One big problem, nobody today had seen one like it. And finding a match for the image returned nothing.
That was until now. With AI performing much better image searches today then it could a decade ago. It found a match from a 1940’s magic toy collection.
Turns out Dog and Collar Magic Puzzles were common in the early 1940’s. A popular puzzle mold would be cast in different metals from copper to steel. Something I Ironically ended up doing with it. It's how I met my wife. I made a copy and gave it away in a contest. And she won. I met her after mailing her the prize.
It was nice to finally solve another mystery. A little disappointed it wasn’t a true ancient "Anubis" relic. But it could offer a clue to solving other unsolved artifacts. We shouldn’t be shocked if something that looks complicated to us could just be a common parlor toy from a bygone era.