‘DEATH WAS THE FIRST MYSTERY; it started man on the road to the other mysteries...” New fiction

‘DEATH WAS THE FIRST MYSTERY; it started man on the road to the other mysteries,” the French historian Fustel de Coulanges wrote of ancient Egypt. ‘Nowhere else was life so completely dominated by preoccupation with life after death; nowhere else was such minute and complicated care taken to secure and perpetuate another existence for the deceased. The funeral literature, of which we have found a very great number of documents, had acquired a development equaled by no other, and the architecture of no other nation can exhibit tombs comparable with the pyramids or the rock-built sepulchres of Thebes.’

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