Carter directed the lamp at the area of the wall between the two sentries. There was a large, discoloured, oblong panel, the height of an average man, covered with seal impressions. The tomb so far had shown nothing of the lengthy corridors that normally preceded the burial place of a king but this clearly was another sealed door – to another corridor, to another room, or maybe to the burial chamber itself.
Carter noticed another discoloration at the base and near the centre of the blocked doorway. “Another breach. See? Resealed in antiquity!”
While the others remained silent, overawed by what they saw around them, Lady Evelyn said, “We… we are the first to intrude into this place for… for how long, Mr Carter?”
“Three thousand years…” Carter whispered respectfully in the stillness of the chamber.
“That is, of course, providing the plundering was accomplished and reparations completed almost immediately after the burial. From the looks of the place, I am pretty sure that was the case.”
Intruders themselves? They felt nothing of the kind. Explorers? Adventurers? Entrepreneurs? Discoverers? Lucky? They were all these things.
Carnarvon grinned at Carter and then looked down at the resealed robbers’ hole…
An excerpt from Tutankhamun Uncovered, by Michael J. Marfleet.
Copyright 2009-2010 Michael J. Marfleet. All rights reserved.
Published by Apex Publishing Ltd.
