Graffiti left on the tomb of Ramses V in Egypt by ancient greek tourists (when the tomb was only a few hundred years old). “I visited and did not like anything but the sarcophagus” and “I cannot read the hieroglyphs.”
I’ve never forgotten watching Maury Povich get scolded for shaving as he descended into a burial chamber in Egypt on live television in 1999. Rewatching this today, it was clearly the curse at work.
I was having a tough time picturing what this may have looked like in its heyday, then I discovered this amazing video that visualizes the structure and explains its construction and intricacies.
‘Ipet-Sut’ (“Karnak”), the highly sacred Precinct of the God Amon-Ra at ‘Uaset’-Thebes (“Karnak”): view from the Entrance-Gate of the Sixth Pylon toward the Central Bark Shrine located within the “Palace of Maat”. To the left (north), the heraldic pillar of Lower Egypt; to the right (south), the heraldic pillar of Upper Egypt
