Thursday, August 8, 2013

Imagine if the ancient Egyptians were right about taking it with you when you die



Would we arrive empty handed?


"The ancient Egyptians had a firm conviction that you could take it all with you when you died, provided your worldly goods were placed in your tomb with you.

Food, wine, furniture, games, weapons, treasures...

They believed that the afterlife would be a continuation of life on the Nile, only better, but with the same sorts of challenges.

Imagine if we woke up in the next life to learn that they were right - only the ancient Egyptians own any stuff. 

The rest of us have landed there empty handed.

But of course not many ancients retained their worldly goods for long with the systematic depredation of tomb robbers - and of archaeology..."

One of the musings by Anson Hunter, fiction's adventurer Egyptologist, in an upcoming new book in the series...

Meet Anson Hunter in the archaeological adventure series
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