Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose

Today, we decided to check out the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose.

The museum is not very large but houses many original artifacts from ancient Egypt.
The buildings look very new and well-decorated.

Alex and Inna touched some ancient Egyptian artifacts inside the museum, including stones from the Pyramid of Djoser - the first Egyptian pyramid (over 5,000+ years old) and an antique storage vase.

All kinds of statues, sarcophagi, papyrus, and other ancient items are on display.

Here is a miniature replica of the first Egyptian pyramid - the Pyramid of Djoser, built during the 27th century BC for the burial of Pharaoh Djoser by Imhotep.

There is a full-size replica of the Tutankhamun Sarcophagus.

Egyptians mummified their pets and favorite animals, including cats.

We got to explore a replica of an Egyptian tomb. Inside, it's very dark, and there are multiple levels.

At the very bottom, where the sarcophagus is buried, there are a lot of pictures on the wall describing the deceased patron's life.

An excellent pictorial of the "Weighing of the Heart" is on the tomb's walls.
According to Wikipedia:

The Weighing of the Heart was a ritual of judgement from the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. The Book of the Dead describes how, after death, a person would enter the Duat, or underworld, and deal with many challenges there. At some point in their journey through the Duat, the deceased would be led by the god Anubis into the 'Hall of the Two Ma'ats'. There he would recite the 'Negative Confession' in the presence of a number of divine judges, pleading his innocence of up to 42 sins. After this confession, the deceased's heart—representing their intellect and personality—would be weighed against the goddess Ma'at, representing truth and justice, and often represented by her symbol of a feather. If the scales balanced, this meant the deceased had led a good life. Anubis would take them to Osiris and they would find their place in the afterlife, becoming maa-kheru, meaning "vindicated" or "true of voice".^[1] If the heart was out of balance with Ma'at, then another fearsome beast called Ammit, the Devourer, stood ready to eat it and put the dead person's afterlife to an early and unpleasant end

The person awaiting judgment had to answer "No" to the following 42 questions to be admitted to the afterlife:

1. I have not committed sin.
2. I have not committed robbery with violence.
3. I have not stolen.
4. I have not slain men and women.
5. I have not stolen grain.
6. I have not purloined offerings.
7. I have not stolen the property of the god.
8. I have not uttered lies.
9. I have not carried away food.
10. I have not uttered curses.
11. I have not committed adultery.
12. I have not lain with men.
13. I have made none to weep.
14. I have not eaten the heart [i.e I have not grieved uselessly, or felt remorse].
15. I have not attacked any man.
16. I am not a man of deceit.
17. I have not stolen cultivated land.
18. I have not been an eavesdropper.
19. I have slandered [no man].
20. I have not been angry without just cause(?).
21. I have not debauched the wife of any man.
22. I have not polluted myself.
23. I have terrorised none.
24. I have not transgressed [the Law].
25. I have not been wroth.
26. I have not shut my ears to the words of truth.
27. I have not blasphemed.
28. I am not a man of violence.
29. I am not a stirrer up of strife (or a disturber of the peace).
30. I have not acted (or judged) with undue haste.
31. I have not pried into matters.
32. I have not multiplied my words in speaking.
33. I have wronged none, I have done no evil.
34. I have not worked witchcraft against the King (or blasphemed against the King).
35. I have never stopped [the flow of] water.
36. I have never raised my voice (spoken arrogantly, or in anger).
37. I have not cursed (or blasphemed) God.
38. I have not acted with arrogance(?).
39. I have not stolen the bread of the gods.
40. I have not carried away the khenfu cakes from the Spirits of the dead.
41. I have not snatched away the bread of the child, nor treated with contempt the god of my city.
42. I have not slain the cattle belonging to the god.^[3]