The Antechamber | Under the Lion Bed

This photo by Harry Burton shows part of the antechamber. Under the Lion Bed (Carter no. 35) one can discern two small black boxes, which held gilded figures of gods. On the right there is a small chest with a timeless, classic design (Carter Nr. 32), which was carefully built with reddish wood, ebony, and ivory.
The little chair (Carter no. 39) to the left of the bed legs is made from ebony and ivory, and is partially gilded. This was the chair that Tutankhamun sat on as a child.
Photographer: Harry Burton
Date: December 1922 or January 1923

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Imagine all the famous, (and infamous) people who have visited Egypt over the centuries!
Napoleon, the Scandinavian, German, British and French Monarchs going all the way back to the Renaissance.
Even Alexander the Great, and countless Greek, Roman, and even Persian rulers, statesmen, wealthy households and famous writers, poets, and musicians have stood in the sand, gazing in amazement and wonder of the Egyptian civilization.
How many places on the planet are there responsible for generating so much collective awe and inspiration?!
How many places in Egypt can you go and say you're standing in the exact spot Alexander the Great and Napoleon once stood?
Even Cleopatra herself, one of the last Egyptian rulers calling themselves, "Pharaoh," must have been well aware of the vast history she was responsible for continuing.
The Great Pyramid, and the entire Giza necropolis complex, was already over two thousand five hundred years old by her time.
There is a stone slab that was installed between the two front paws of the Sphinx called the, "Dream Stele," that tells the story of an ancient Pharaoh, and his dream of rising to power after falling asleep while taking a rest in the shade of the Sphinx during a hunting trip.
The, "Dream Stele," (also called the Sphinx Stele,) is an epigraphic stele erected between the front paws of the Great Sphinx of Giza by the Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose IV in the first year of his 18th Dynasty reign in 1401 BC.
By the time of his hunting trip, the Sphinx had already been there for over a thousand years, (approx. 2558-2532 BC) and because the Hyksos took Memphis during or shortly after c. 1700 BC, the rulers of the 13th Dynasty fled south to Thebes, which was restored as capital, the entire Giza Plateau area and Nile Delta had become largely desert wasteland wilderness again, leaving the Sphinx and the Pyramid complex behind it largely abandoned and almost completely covered in sand.
When Thutmose IV happened upon it, he was probably well aware of what it was, and the area was clearly a popular vacation/holiday spot for the Egyptian elite around that time.
Imagine, "I'm going hunting down by the ruins today, see you later, wish me luck!"
Anyway, the story on the Stele attributed to him says that, "After resting in the shade of the Sphinx, the young Prince dreams that the Sphinx promises him the throne of Egypt in return for him clearing the sand away from around it."
So, when he awoke Thutmose IV, "did as he was instructed," and started a labor crew clearing the sand and rubble away that had accumulated from around the Sphinx, and indeed went on to become the pharaoh Thutmose IV.
It's claimed that, "In gratitude he promoted Re-Horemakhet above Amun-Re, dedicated a temple to Horemakhet and placed the stele between the paws of the Sphinx to record the tale."
The point I'm trying to make here is the vast stretches of time that the ancient Egyptian civilization lasted.
We are closer in time, today, by over 500 years to Cleopatra as Cleopatra was, in her time, to the Pharaohs responsible for the construction of the Great Pyramid complex at Giza.
We think back to the Roman era, and the beginning of the Christian Religion and the life of Christ as, "ancient history," lol but that's not even halfway to the time of the life of, "King Tut."
Anyone living in the time of Jesus would think back to the time of the 18th Dynasty and be looking further back through time than we are thinking back to Jesus.
And, the people living in the time of the 18th Dynasty look back through time even further than that imagining their ancestors building the Pyramids.
The Egyptians weren't only the first human civilization on Earth, they were also the longest lasting. They endured, right there along that thousand miles stretch of the Nile from the Mediterranean to Aswan in Northern Ethiopia, growing and advancing, going through good and bad periods and invasions while maintaining the same relative culture and traditions longer than ALL the other successful civilizations around the world throughout history until this day COMBINED.
Whatever they were doing, it was working. Arguably better than anything else anybody else has tried before or since.
And, the proof that they actually DID achieve immortality is the fact that we STILL know a significant number of their names today.
It really makes you rethink what is actually, "ancient," or not.
And, that's a fun, worthwhile mental exercise, in my book. 👍😁

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