Skull of an Egyptian mongoose
Date 1980
Source The contemporary land mammals of Egypt (including Sinai) (1980) by Dale J. Osborn and Ibrahim Helmy (see here http://www.archive.org/details/contemporaryland05osbo for copyright status)
Author Dale J. Osborn and Ibrahim Helmy
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herpestesichneumonskull.png

The Egyptian mongoose or the ichneumon (Herpestes ichneumon) is a species of mongoose. The Egyptian mongooses can be found in Egypt, Spain, Portugal, Palestine, and most of sub-Saharan Africa, except for central Democratic Republic of the Congo, western South Africa, and Namibia.