The Pharaoh, dressed in the white robe of Osiris, wearing the double crowns of the two ancient kingdoms of the north and south, and bearing the flails of his high office, is a table. On it is the implement for the ceremony of Opening the Mouth, and what looks like a lotus plant. Both are faded and hard to see. Last year, the tomb flooded. This year, it will do the same.
Immortality is here.
But death is all about. It was, if you were to believe the news reports, the greatest find since Pharaoh Tutankhamun's three golden coffins first saw the light of a new day in 1922 when Egyptologist Howard Carter drew back the lid of the huge sarcophagus in the Valley of the Kings. The discovery of a crypt fit for 50 princes sheds new light on the epic life of Ramesses the Great. CNN did a five minute in-depth report, and the news brought great relief to TV images of death and disaster around the world. Since Tutankhamum, the Valley of the Kings means treasure.