Impressive Professionalism

Nakht was a weaver connected
With the royal funerary
Chapel at Thebes, who died around
Thirty-two hundred years ago

And was properly mummified,
Indicating pretty high rank,
Wouldn’t you think? The professions
Are not what mummies bring to mind,

Of course—first, you think of pharaohs,
Then of sacrificial victims
In peat bogs or on high mountains,
Then accidents, like the Ice Man.

But Nakht was a weaver, with worms,
According to the museum.