An Ancient Egyptian Tomb's Inscription of Love
Story★★★★Explorers once came upon an Egyptian tomb which had remained closed and silent for some three thousand years. They opened and entered it and found within the exquisitely carved sarcophagus of a little child. Upon it was inscribed these words: “O my life, my love, my little one, would God I had died for thee!” The two Englishmen silently uncovered their heads, and with tears dimming their eyes crept from the darkness of the tomb into the light. Reverently they sealed up the tomb once more and left love and death to their eternal vigil. The very spirit of love survived in that place of silent death. How old is love! How it clings through the years, through the centuries.
The point
An ancient Egyptian tomb's inscription of a grieving parent's love for a lost child shows how love endures across millennia.