However, it is clear that they have an even greater function to fulfil as, contextually, everything in the tomb has symbolism and meaning, even down to the wooden boxes for preserved meats, which were ...

The wooden staffs may have played a central role in ritually “waking” Tutankhamun. Brown believes the clay troughs were used in a ritual drink pouring in memory of the dead. AFP via Getty ...

Out of all the Egyptian pharaohs whose tombs have been discovered over the years, King Tutankhamun's tomb ... have the power to revive the dead. Additionally, the wooden staff may have played ...

The trays and four 3-foot-tall wooden staffs were placed about five feet from the head of King Tutankhamun’s sarcophagus ... to a deity in memory of the dead. Water from the River Nile ...