Mery-Re the Second had been the Overseer of the Two Treasuries, a much more secular position. Near the entrance to his tomb there was an adoration scene and an inscription of Akhenaten’s Hymn to the Aten, badly defaced. But on one of the inner walls there was a scene of Nefertiti straining a drink for her husband seated under a sunshade, and Mery-Re the Second receiving a golden collar like his father. Some of the cartouches had been scratched out and the names of Smenkhkare and Merytaten overlaid. So this tomb must have been finished after Akhenaten’s death, but before the main purge of the Atenist cult started. Had Mery-Re himself lain in this tomb? The four sat in meditation, on Emma’s suggestion, and tried to contact its ancient inhabitant.
For the first time since they had come to Ak
