The Pharaoh's Secret by Marissa Moss

Author:Marissa Moss
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2011-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

ACK AT THE HOTEL, THERE’S A MESSAGE from Dad. Instead of coming tomorrow like he’d planned, he says he’ll be a couple of days late. Rashid looks irritated to be saddled with us for even longer. I tell him we’re fine on our own, but he just scowls and says he’ll meet us after breakfast. He’s finally taking us to his famous tomb.

It’s been an exhausting day. I want to soak in a hot bath but Adom is still buzzing. He isn’t mad at me anymore and is so excited by everything we’ve seen, by the promise of seeing more, he’s having a hard time winding down. After the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut, I wanted to come back, to collapse at the hotel. But Rashid insisted we go to the Valley of the Queens, where we went into several more tombs. It was as if he had to erase the sensation of Senenmut’s tomb by immersing himself in different ones. At first I thought Adom and I would feel dragged along on a grown-up errand, like when Dad tells us we’re stopping at the hardware store on the way home and it’ll only take a moment, but then an hour later we’re still wandering through aisles of plumbing supplies and pipe wrenches. Luckily, it wasn’t like that at all. Rashid may have needed the contrast of these richly painted tombs to the emptiness of Senenmut’s. To Adom and me, they were simply beautiful. The colors of the carvings were as fresh as the day they were painted— rich, buttery yellows, vibrant reds, soft, powdery blues. The scenes of bread baking, men fishing, and women dancing were full of life and movement. I was surprised that they could be thousands of years old and still look so bright. It was as if someone like Meru had worked there only yesterday. Copying the scenes in my sketchbook, I had the warm sensation that I was walking in his world. That helped take away the chill that Senenmut’s tomb had soaked into my bones.

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