Author: Bob Brier
“At such moments the emotions evade verbal expression, complex and stirring as they are. Three thousand years and more had elapsed since men’s eyes had gazed into that golden coffin. Time, measured by the brevity of human life, seemed to lose its common perspectives before a spectacle so vividly recalling the solemn religious rites of a vanished civilization. But it is useless to dwell on such sentiments, based as they are on feelings of awe and human pity. The emotional side is no part of archaeological research. Here at last lay all that was left of the youthful pharaoh, hitherto little more than the shadow of a name”.
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