At the British Museum

Many thanks for all the stimulating comments. I've changed the sun repetition - "doubly crowned" refers to the double crown of Pharaonic regalia - also we get a nice near-rhyme with "crowds"...(thanks to Alcuin).

I have to agree with Leanne...there's something amiss with displaying corpses in this way...I wanted to convey that sense of this once being a living breathing human being now far from home in every sense...but what seemed to come out was more a commentary on delusional religion..a sort of snub to a belief in afterlife...but then I contradict myself in that last stanza, where the romance of myth/religion is almost preferable to our modern prosaic sensibility too accustomed to fast-paced shallow living. I think we're life-obsessed, not death-obsessed...maybe a healthy balance of both is requisite? BRgds.,Alan.