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UPDATE: Ancient Egypt's ultimate labour saving devices - they worked for you throughout eternity
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A new tomb discovery crammed with afterlife servants has recently hit the news - Live Science
http://bit.ly/38Tt1W3
Shabtis or ushabtis populated ancient Egyptian tombs.
Shabtis or ushabtis populated ancient Egyptian tombs.
Macabre little manikins,
they were designed to labour for the dead in the afterlife.
Some tombs stacked as many as three hundred and sixty five with the dead, one for every day
of the year, plus a few extras as overseers.
They just don't build labour-saving devices the way they used to.
Note: An eerie short story ('Shabti, The Soul Slave') about a servant statue's influence today appeared in one of my collections:
Note: An eerie short story ('Shabti, The Soul Slave') about a servant statue's influence today appeared in one of my collections:
UPDATE: 'Shabti' now appears as one of the stories in Mortal Egypt at AMAZON (Egypt with a twist of the macabre)
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