Gold, sand, and buried shadow — the way the tomb was first lit.

Royal violet replaces the gold; lapis glows like crushed amethyst.

Cool jade and deep green — verdant, alive, watered by a hidden spring.

Silver on black glass; embers burn ice-cold against it.

Amber and fire — the dawn Ra wheels across the sky.

Burnt umber and bronze — dune-beetle armour under a hot sun.

Silt-brown gives way to cool Nile teal — the flood that renews the land.

Dust-choked amber and ash-grey — the desert storm that scours the stone.

The blood-red stone of emperors — power carved in porphyry and gold.

Silver-blue moonlight over silver sand — a colder, ghostlier tomb.

Phosphor-green gloom of the night-barque — the dead walk between stars.

White-hot gold and molten amber — every shadow burned away by the high sun.

Field-green and faded scroll-gold — the whisper of tall reeds at dusk.

Ritual vermilion against lamp-black — the colour of ceremony and blood.

The prized turquoise of Sinai — jewelry-green that cools the deepest hall.

Sun-pinked carnelian and rose quartz — the tomb at golden hour.