Since
he died at young age the work with his tomb had hardly even started. It
is easy to imagine 
in
what hurry his grave must be prepared during the 70 days long period of
embalming. The wall decorations are only painted because there was no time
for the more extensive stone carvings that usually fill the tombs. I suppose
they scraped together some treasures that could work as the most necessary
things for the eternal journey. Tutankhamen probably only received a fraction
of what his more celebrated colleagues brought into the afterlife.The
tomb of Tutankhamen was later on covered by excavation masses from the accomplished
tomb of Ramses VI. The boy king may have been looked upon merely as a parenthesis
in the chronicles. By the irony of fate these excavation masses saved Tutankhamen's
tomb from being discovered by grave robbers. The great Ramses VI:s treasures
were stolen and disappeared into oblivion, while the insignificant Tutankhamen
would be resurrected with all his possessions for the whole world to admire.
First published: Monday 20th May, 1996.
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