When they reached the last chamber it was bare of everything except the tremendously heavy stone sarcophagus. All the rich grave goods that must have been buried with such a powerful and long-lived king had been stolen long before the archaeologists reached the tomb. Ben Wilson had been there at its opening, but had not stayed beyond the first few days of digging out. He described the corridors choked with piles of chippings and dried mud from several flash floods.
At the corners of the sarcophagus goddesses were carved protecting the pharaoh with their wings.
Emma glared at it, firmly held under the restraining arm of Jack.
On the wall behind the sarcophagus there was a line drawing of the judgement scene in the Hall of Osiris. The tomb was evidently not finished before Horemheb died a
