The bug seen here above Anubis' head is one of these beetles
Giving the head of the monkey statue to the chief on Monkey Island... [DOC] [TLE] Scarab Beetles in Human Culture - JStor [PAR] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live 
the ... sacred scarab, these insects and their ball-rolling behavior (at least in the 
first three genera listed above; Copris and Catharsius are not ball rollers) 
symbolized ... as early as the third millennium B.C., and an "embalmed" scarab 
was found.