IIPM Editorial : Curse Cast in Stone
The colossal tombs of civilisation and the enigma within...
Standing alone, dwarfed amid the seemingly endless stretch of barren land with huge creaky tombs of all dead, buried in all preparatory paraphernalia – in the hope of those waking up to life any time, and ‘any time’ implies even the moment I stand, numb and petrified, in the ancient ‘valley of kings’ on the western bank of the rasping river Nile. The echo of drilling and hammering bestirred me close and as I walked towards it, looking around at the marked tombs, I saddened at the once poshand-formidable pharaohs now reduced to serial numbers. At the site, later named KV62, I abutted English Archaeologist Howard Carter, observing him break the seal of the doorway of the recently revealed chamber of King Tutankhamen.
Standing alone, dwarfed amid the seemingly endless stretch of barren land with huge creaky tombs of all dead, buried in all preparatory paraphernalia – in the hope of those waking up to life any time, and ‘any time’ implies even the moment I stand, numb and petrified, in the ancient ‘valley of kings’ on the western bank of the rasping river Nile. The echo of drilling and hammering bestirred me close and as I walked towards it, looking around at the marked tombs, I saddened at the once poshand-formidable pharaohs now reduced to serial numbers. At the site, later named KV62, I abutted English Archaeologist Howard Carter, observing him break the seal of the doorway of the recently revealed chamber of King Tutankhamen.
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