Mary A

“On October 13, 1925, Carter gazed upon the face of the first of the three elaborately gilded and inlaid coffins. A small wreath of olive leaves and flowers was still intact around the royal uraeus on the pharaoh’s brow.”
― Susan J. Allen, Tutankhamun's Tomb: The Thrill of Discovery

“Tell me’ said Valens. ‘What do your family make of Tilla?’…’Some of them quite like her’ said Ruso. ‘The rest are somewhere between horror and resignation.”
― R.S. Downie

“Meanwhile the hawk was nearing completion, as was the giant steed, almost twenty feet high. After the tilting and feats of horsemanship, the hug animal was to approach the nobles in the pavilion, lower its massive head and open its mouth, out of which would tumble sweet and comfits, as well as gifts for the ladies. Beneath its caparison, a team of four men worked the cumbersome creature: one in the neck; the others below to move it along and guide it.”
― John Pilkington, A Ruinous Wind

“As dawn broke, and Ra rose above the horizon, returning light and life to the world, I saw rolling into the distance the famous Way of Horus, its red earth trodden down into a hard, wide, reliable surface by the feet of the countless men and soldiers who had marched it since the long-ago days the King Tuthmosis I.”
― Nick Drake, Egypt: the Book of Chaos