The Book of the Dead, Valley of the Kings & Ancient Tourists

Follow us on Instagram @vintage_egyptologist 3D tour of the tomb of Ramesses VI is at https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=Nei... See more at egymonuments.gov.eg Logo: Santiago (@Elektrodeco)Music: Phonograph DJ Mac, “The Vamp – Fox Trot,” Joseph C Smith’s Orchestra (1919) Image Credits: 0:33: Giovanni Belzoni, Plates illustrative of the researches and operations of G. Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia (London, 1820) (Public Domain, http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/) 0:33: Fourth Hour of the Book of Amduat: J. C. Darnell and C. M. Darnell, The Ancient Egyptian Netherworld Books (Atlanta, 2018), pl. 6 0:42: Fifth Hour of the Book of Amduat: J. C. Darnell and C. M. Darnell, The Ancient Egyptian Netherworld Books (Atlanta, 2018), pl. 7 1:17: Cartouche of Unas from inside the pyramid of Unas at Saqqara (photograph by Colleen Darnell) 2:16: 3D tour of the tomb of Ramesses VI: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=Nei... 3:40: Book of the Dead of Gautsoshen (Metropolitan Museum of Art 25.3.32, Public Domain, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect... 3:46: Relief of baboons and symbols of the solar cycle, ca. 400-200 BCE (Metropolitan Museum of Art 66.99.73, Public Domain, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...) 4:23: David Roberts, Entrance to the tombs of the kings of Thebes (Public Domain, https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/i...) 4:34: Description de l’Égypte, Antiquités., II, pl. 78 (Public Domain, https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/i...) 4:44: Francis Frith, Obelisk at Karnak (1858-59) (Public Domain https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/i...) 5:59: Thebes. Valley of the tombs of the kings. Mural paintings in the tomb No 9 of Rameses V and VI. (Public Domain, http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/it...) 6:08: Terracotta amphora with probable depiction of Achilles and Memnon (Archaic, ca. 530-520 BCE) (Metropolitan Museum of Art 21.88.76, Public Domain, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...) 6:28: Félix Teynard, “Colosses (Celue de Droite, Dit de Memnon)” (1851-52) (Metropolitan Museum of Art 1976.607.40, Public Domain, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...) 6:40: Amenhotep III and his Mother, Mutemwia, in a Kiosk (Painting by Nina de Garis Davies after original in Theban Tomb 226) (Metropolitan Museum of Art 15.5.1, Public Domain, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...) 6:52: Colossi of Amunhotep III (Photograph by Colleen Darnell) 7:14: Hieroglyphic text at the rear of the southern colossus of Amunhotep III (Photograph by Colleen Darnell) 7:37: Ritual of the Opening of the Mouth in the tomb of Pairy (facsimile by Nina de Garis Davies, Metropolitan Museum of Art 35.101.3, Public Domain, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...) 8:54: Detail of the coffin of Amenemhat, 21st Dynasty (National Archaeological Museum of Spain, Inv. 15216) Photograph by Luis García, licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0), https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ca... 9:38: Excerpt from the Book of Adoring Re in the West (the Litany of Re) from the tomb of Ramesses III (Photograph by Colleen Darnell) 10:10: Excerpt from the Eleventh Hour of the Book of Amduat, from blocks associated with the burial of Thutmose I (Photograph by Colleen Darnell) 11:28: Chapter 125 from the Book of the Dead of Nany (MMA 30.3.31, Public Domain, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...)