Thursday, March 20, 2014

THIS HALLOWEEN, a wonderfully macabre ancient Egyptian mummy

British Museum
Did the ancient Egyptians go to their graves resting on a broken reed, believing in a non-existent eternity? 

He sometimes wondered if they had achieved some sort of ghostly existence within the withered husks of their remains, suspended, like their bodies, in stasis, where the relative motions of space and time no longer operated...