But Gentlemen, yor're in, or on the boon-docks instead of the Nile or lake Karun docks. I have this feeling that the kings of Egypt appreciated their privacy in bath and bedrooms, so to speak, it's a universal "tradition."
No, the "pride of lions" thing doesn't work, for 1, the living Pharaoh's are said to have been lions themselves, or at least had identical cunning in the hunting game, more than that, some kings wore a leopard skin to fool or outwit the king of beasts, and also when they went to Punt to hunt "exotic" animals, gold and turquoise, to bring home, but as far as I know they never found the pigmy to gladen their childrens hearts.
For 2, the lions would have left the "royal robes" and "blue cap" which I'm sure he wore as his hair is never shown, hunting or battling his enemies, to be found and carefully preserved because disposal of garb of a living god was unthinkable, as so many other things wethinks concerning the AE.
If Khufu's body was available for burial, then, where is it? His Pyramid being the "chief" pyramid, making him the "chief King", or vis-a-vis, one would think his "funeral procession" would be depicted somwhere, the best and most logical place on the walls up the Grand Gallery to arrive at the Kings Chamber and be placed in the sarcophagus, but it was found empty.
The tomb robbers of that time? Common sense would ask what is a body to them, even a king's, but dead weight to carry around, unless they were "psychics" seeing that in a couple thousand years it could be sold for millions on e-bay, and kept it "in the family" in strict secrecy from one generation to the next. I don't buy it, to rob the treasures buried with him, ok, but there is no indication or inscription anywhere, such as "we brought the body of his majesty, King Khufu, to his sacred and eternal tomb, which we finished just in the nick of time, may his ka fly upward through the shaft we have provided to become an Akh and shine in the heavens for ever and ever."
If there was a great treasure buried with Khufu, as was with King Tut, minus the furniture and such because they passage before reaching the Grand Gallery is barely big enough for a person, the chamber is to small, and these darned plugs in the way, it's either lost in the desert sands, sands of time, or Anthony has bought them all up because he tells us with unshakable conviction that he has the evidence for agreed upon and accepted theories.
It's a Jammer, (lamentable), Jammer, but did Pharaoh really speak thusly?
Charlotte