Above: Pharaoh Ramesses III and his faithful dog ... dogs are connected through Anubis, the god of the dead, thought of as companions and guides to humans in the afterlife.
1 shows the workers' tombs in the mountainside.
2 to 6 show various scenes in the tomb of Ramesses I.
2 ... Two of Ten Rammesses I images on the wall of the Book of Gates, a funeral composition, narrates the passage of a newly deceased soul into
the next world, corresponding to the journey of the sun through the underworld during the hours of the night.
3 ... Atum escorts the dead Ramesses I.
4 ... The god of the afterlife, the dead and resurrection, Osiris.
5 ... Horus (left) and Anubis (right) greet Ramesses I.
6 ... The creator god Ptah.
7 to 13 show various scenes in the tomb of Ramesses III.
11 ... The god Horus greets the Pharaoh ...
12 ... Ramesses III in the afterlife.
13 ... The goddess of truth, harmony and justice Ma'at.
14 and 15 show the mummy of Ramesses III, his neck covered in bandages to hide the severe slit in his throat when he was assassinated during ...
a massive coup ... by one of his wives, who wanted her son Pentaweret to assume the throne instead of his eldest son Ramesses IV. Didn't work,
Ramesses IV assumed the throne. The other pictures is Boris Karloff in The Mummy (1932), whose look was inspired by the Ramesses III mummy.
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