Worthless and Weak

The Egyptian Museum is very big. I mean very very very big. It has lots of stuff, room after room of statues. Row after row of coffins. Hundres of carvings, reliefs, tools, vases and more. Seriously, I went in there at 9:30, and felt I hadn't seen everything until 2:30. Thats a long time, just looking through different rooms.

Of course they have almost the entirety of the Tomb of Tutenkamen, (except for the King himself - he's still resting something close to peacefully in his grave near Thebes. Including a 200 pound coffin made out of solid gold (wow!)

If you were to list all of the Egyptian Pharoahs by importance, King Tut wouldn't make the top ten. Or fifty. Maybe the top 100. And close to every single one of them would have wanted a splendid burial. This means that there were probably dozens of tombs that had much more and much higher quality stuff that was in Tut's. Imagine if we had found Ramses the great's entact, it would have probably had three coffins of solid gold - but we'll most likely never find another entact royal tomb - I guess we should be lucky that we have one.

Labels: Egypt, vacation