After touring the tombs of Egypt’s kings and queens, I loved visiting the Tombs of the Nobles. Relatively few people visit the area. It is an expanse of desert, containing over 400 tombs. Although "Nobles" might sound posh, the Egyptians’ Nobles were regular working guys. The tombs are modest, stockpiling only the bare necessities for the afterlife.
My favorite was Sennofer's tomb. It is unclear how to spell his name in English. There were two signs only a few feet apart, spelling his name differently. I gave up trying to figure out how to spell it.
The ceiling of the tomb was lumpy and uneven, unlike the smooth carvings of the tombs of kings and queens. Sennofer's tomb was decorated in grape vines, following the curvy lines of the ceiling.
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| Photos were forbidden. I took this one from the internet. |
There was some electric lighting, but not all the way into the tomb. One of the guards, trying to be helpful, had balanced a shard of broken mirror on a rock just outside the entrance to the tomb, shooting a glare into the main corridor. He stood at the end of the light rays, holding a piece of cardboard with aluminum foil. He aimed it up toward the ceiling. His contraption worked pretty well.