Beneath the Sands of Egypt (2010)
“One man sat precariously on a thick wooden plank poised above the hole, hauling on a thick hemp rope that ran through a huge, antiquated pulley affixed to a sturdy beam. The distinct ringing tone of hoes striking against limestone chips was followed by a short pause as the rubber basket full of debris was hooked to the rope and then hoisted to the surface.
The shaft belonged to a tomb last opened in 1906 by Edward Ayrton, working for Theodore Davis. Inside, Ayrton encountered the mummy of “a ma...n, tall and well built…unwrapped and thrown on one side.” His name was confirmed by a few remaining objects in the ransacked tomb’s sole chamber. He was Amenemope, a “vizier”—second-in-command, that is—to the Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh Amenhotep II, and as in reports of so many other, similar tombs in its time of discovery, the tone here is almost dismissive. When we reopened it in 2008, we encountered much of the tomb’s contents still intact, minus the mummy—a provocative quandary.MoreLess
The shaft belonged to a tomb last opened in 1906 by Edward Ayrton, working for Theodore Davis. Inside, Ayrton encountered the mummy of “a ma...n, tall and well built…unwrapped and thrown on one side.” His name was confirmed by a few remaining objects in the ransacked tomb’s sole chamber. He was Amenemope, a “vizier”—second-in-command, that is—to the Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh Amenhotep II, and as in reports of so many other, similar tombs in its time of discovery, the tone here is almost dismissive. When we reopened it in 2008, we encountered much of the tomb’s contents still intact, minus the mummy—a provocative quandary.MoreLess
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