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From Ptah-Hotep's mastaba this virtual tour goes to Ti who was overseer of the sun temples of Neferikare and Nyusare during the fifth dynasty. We are not only looking for a historical tomb, we are looking for Ti himself.

Entering the mastaba-tomb of Ti See larger photo

The guard is taking us through the entrance into a larger columned court. In the middle of the court there is a shaft which leads down to the burial place itself. We are not going there but will continue from the court and deeper into the mastaba-tomb.

What's in the end of this long and narrow corridor? See larger photo

A new door leads us into a long narrow corridor where the walls have beautiful carved reliefs. Far in front of us can we see a wall in the end, and there it's something whispering an ancient "welcome".

The main hall, and in the wall a hole... See larger photo

Here, after the narrow corridor, we end up in a pillared hall filled with wall reliefs.

Much of the colours are still intact, but there in front of us is a small open niche in the wall. Behind it we see light and...

Mr. Ti I presume? See larger photo

...a face and the naked upper part of a person who stands there looking us directly in the eyes.

We don't even have to ask the rewritten phrase "Mr. Ti we presume?" - we know its Ti looking at us through the niche and a distance of nearly five thousand years.

The Ka door in the pillared hall See larger photo

On another wall is a door carved out in the limestone. It don't lead anywhere and none can come though it - if you are not a Ka that is.

In ancient Egypt the Egyptians said the human being had a body, a Ka and a Ba. The body was embalmed and the Ba flew back to the heavens, but Ka remained here. Ka is the double personality of every human being, and Ka came in and departed again through false doors as this, doors we today call for a "Ka door".

As the Ka also was defined as "remembrance", we will on the next page follow Ti's Ka though some of its activities 4400 years ago.

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