After a thorough inspection, they found that all the houses in this residential district were more or less alike.
The rooms contained earthenware jars, stone tools, and other ordinary daily necessities from that era.
Besides that, most of the houses held anthropoid coffins.
Professor Smith was full of doubt. "What a strange city. These mummies should all have been residents of this city, but after they died, they weren't buried. Their coffins were simply kept inside their homes. I've never seen anything like this in any other ancient Egyptian ruin."
"Perhaps this city served some other purpose. Those nine enormous Stone Pillars are carved with the symbols of the Egyptian Ennead."
Shining their high-powered flashlights farther inside, they could see nine colossal Stone Pillars supporting the entire space.
The giant pillars were each carved with one of the nine highest-ranking deities in the ancient Egyptian pantheon.
The pillar closest to the entrance depicted a female deity wearing a roof-shaped headdress.
She was Nephthys, the guardian of houses and the dead, as well as a goddess of childbirth.
Matthew suggested, "Let's go take a look at the temple palace over there."
Clearly, the temple palace at the very center was the city's main structure.
The temple had been built from yellow limestone. Under sunlight, it would have looked magnificent and resplendent.
Unfortunately, the city lay underground, where sunlight could not reach.
When they arrived before the temple, Professor Smith waved his powerful flashlight around and discovered rows of wolf-headed, human-bodied statues standing on both sides of the entrance.
Professor Smith asked uneasily, "I feel like they'll all come alive... There are so many of them... You'll be okay, right?"
"These things won't trouble me. Wait here." Matthew patted his shoulder and strode forward.
Sure enough, once Matthew approached, the wolf-headed, human-bodied