Letters of Travel Letter 22 - Dead Kings

In which honest folk, tourists and diggers alike, eke out a curious commerce amidst the sunlit tombs and dusty relics of ancient Egyptian kings, where time and death hold solemn sway beneath the desert sky. Herein, we peer through painted walls and shadowed corridors, musing on rites, gods, and the inscrutable weight of history that presses down upon the living as ever it did upon the dead.