Once inside the doors of the Egyptian room, the mood changes abruptly from 70s office building to gilded treasure chest. Gold columns, lotus flowers, pomegranates, and papyrus leaves decorate the walls, and around the perimeter of the ceiling is the story of the Book of the Dead, the journey of a man’s soul into the afterlife. It is a story populated by falcons, lions, human-headed hawks, Anubis the jackal headed-god, the eye of Horus, and Osiris, the god of eternal life to whose kingdom souls hope to gain admittance.