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Friday, November 18, 2011
National Geographic: Egypt Underworld (2009)
New excavations are revealing more than we've ever known about Egyptian life after death. To the ancient Egyptians, life after death was a high-stakes underworld journey fraught with terrifying obstacles: fiery lakes of death, battles with bona fide monsters, and ultimately eternal death or resurrection with the sun. It's a journey each Egyptian believed was real, and for the pharaoh the stakes were even higher – the entire cosmos depended on the king's successful journey and resurrection. Now, new excavations are revealing more than we've ever known about what the Egyptians knew they'd encounter on their afterlife journey. Today Dr. Zahi Hawass is excavating a mysterious tunnel at the very bottom of Seti's tomb; a perilous tunnel dug far below the surface of the earth. On a true Indiana-Jones style quest in which Dr. Hawass will put his own life in jeopardy for the sake of discovery.
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yea i had heard about the long tunnel under seti`s tomb, the largest and longest tunnel to date, its funny they still havn`t reached the end yet, who knows what lies at the very end, the secret my lie with the tomb builders and the pharaoh himself...
ReplyDeleteyea, 600m and counting, its theorized that according to the wall painting, it leads directly down of the bowels of the earth where the beast is lurking of the underworld, forget his name.
ReplyDeleteseti`s tomb is one my favorites, such exquisite and detailed artwork is found no where in any tomb in egypt to date. i like especially the celestial sky painting above the main tomb chamber depicting the different constellations and astronomical info - shows how intelligent they were and ahead of any other race of people at their time