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...
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...