The Tomb That Was Never Empty
In ancient Egypt, people believed that after death the soul traveled through the Duat, the dark underworld. There, the god Anubis weighed a person's heart against the feather of truth. If the heart was heavier than the feather, the soul would be eaten by the devourer …
The Tomb That Was Never Empty
In ancient Egypt, people believed that after death the soul traveled through the Duat, the dark underworld. There, the god Anubis weighed a person's heart against the feather of truth. If the heart was heavier than the feather, the soul would be eaten by the devourer Ammit.
But there was something the priests never wrote in the tombs.
Something worse than judgment.
In 1923, an archaeologist named Thomas Hale was working along the western desert outside Luxor. Hi