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Ancient Egyptian Afterlife Posmrtný život ve starém Egyptě. F. Tiradritti and P. Onderka, eds, 2019

Miroslav Barta

When the tomb for the eternal rest of King Tutankhamun (died around 1324 BC) was being hastily prepared in the Valley of the Kings, perhaps even the best-educated priests of that time did not know that its architecture, decoration and equipment, as well as the funeral customs of the age of this otherwise unimportant ruler, reflected the development and experience that had been created and maintained by countless generations over a period of several millennia. The Nile Valley had been continuously occupied at least from the middle of the fifth millennium BC by populations that had come from the present-day Western Desert and the Middle East, driven from there by climate change. Already the earliest evidence testifies that all these people had believed in the Afterlife existence and, accordingly, ascribed much importance to the burial. Mummification, religious concepts and myths as well as specific manifestations of these mental concepts rendered in the material culture and arts of the late Eighteenth Dynasty and particularly in Tutankhamun's tomb represent a fascinating heritage and a message from the ancient civilization in the Nile Valley. Tutankhamun's journey to the Afterlife is a symbolic code; to be able to read it, however, we need to understand at least in rough outlines what had preceded its origin. It may also offer inspiration for us, people of the twenty-first century. Inspiration in the sense that it shows us and proves beyond any doubt that the ideas of the quest for the meaning of life and our legacy are not new at all. On the contrary, they are as old as the humankind itself – and those coming from ancient Egypt are among the most inspiring.

Publication Date: 2019

Publication Name: Ancient Egyptian Afterlife Posmrtný život ve starém Egyptě. F. Tiradritti and P. Onderka, eds

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