The Temple of Thoth is a catacomb complex of the cult of Thoth beneath a forty-meter red sandstone cliff in the Red Desert, sealed for three millennia and opened on 21 December 1928.
| Type | Place |
| Chronicle | ldc |
| Key | Dagger of Thoth |
| Spanish entry | Templo de Thot |
Entrance
A half-buried stela of Akhenaten shows the royal family with an unrecorded child holding an ibis dagger. A slot in the child’s figure is the lock: the dagger opens two ten-meter ibis-wing doors downward.
Layers
- The threshold. Twenty-three steps under fresh murals of the weighing of the heart.
- The chariot corridor. Twenty-three panels of the pharaoh shooting from his chariot; the fallen enemies are animal-headed Ammit.
- The horoscope chamber. A checkered floor under the world’s first horoscope, gold stars on lapis lazuli with Taurus and Libra prominent. The bronze War Chariot of Thoth hangs inverted from the ceiling. A click turns the waxed floor into a slide: the arrow trap.
- The pit of judgment. Black water, biomechanical Ammit and the scales of Maat; only the rite works: when Teddy Bennet placed his quill on the pan, the water drained to reveal a gemstone mosaic mapping the Egyptian underworld.
Counterweights, rails and self-lighting torches run the complex; at its heart waited the Blue Crown of War. The Guardians of the Desert guard the door without crossing it.
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