![]() ![]() He plundering of tombs and carrying-off of mummies has been going on for literally thousands of years. History has been and ever will be the playing field for irony. Those mummies not lost to thievery mostly ended up in the glass cases of museums and historical displays. Death, but death preserved for centuries and eons, for eternity.Įternity in ancient Egypt usually meant, in reality, that these kings and queens were preserved just long enough for tomb raiders to plunder their tombs and sometimes make off with their corpses. But not just any corpses, corpses of kings and queens. ![]() How can one not be fascinated by mummies? They are corpses and corpses are tantalizing. And at the very center of those hoards of gold and bejeweled items, mummies. In the pyramids, in those giant tombs, massive hoards of treasure. And why wouldn’t it be? There are all those pyramids, so pleasingly geometric against the stark and sandy landscape. ![]() Fascination with the ancient Egyptians seems nigh inexhaustible. ![]()
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