CHAPTER 6 The Final Room
CHAPTER 6 The Final Room CHAPTER 6 The Final Room The burial chamber they were standing in was a similar size to the first room. Where the first room's walls had been bare, the walls in here were decorated with paintings and hieroglyphs. Their colours were bright and fresh, as if the paint had only just dried. Ancient life and ancient times loomed over them from the walls. To the right, paintings of twelve monkey-gods, representing the twelve hours of the night through which, it was said, the s
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CHAPTER 6 The Final Room
CHAPTER 6 The Final Room
The burial chamber they were standing in was a similar size to the first room.Where the first room's walls had been bare, the walls in here were decorated with paintings and hieroglyphs.Their colours were bright and fresh, as if the paint had only just dried.
Ancient life and ancient times loomed over them from the walls.To the right, paintings of twelve monkey-gods, representing the twelve hours of the night through which, it was said,the sun had to travel in order to shine again the next day.
Above and ahead of them, pictures of the boy king, Tutankhamun, and the pharaoh who followed him, Ay.In one picture, Tutankhamun was greeted by the goddess Isis and welcomed into the Afterlife.In another, he met Osiris, god of the dead. In another, the dog-headed Anubis, the embalmer.
To the left, a scene of the fully mummified king, encased in a wooden shrine.The shrine was on a barge, being pulled by twelve men wearing white, the colour of mourning.The ancient Egyption depiction of Tutankhamun’s funeral ceremony
