无论我们能否破译墙上的文字，格林照片的信息都很清楚。在巨大的塔后面的半影中，是一个保存在石头中的灭亡民族的故事。这幅茄子色版画的天鹅绒阴影使拉美西斯的荣耀与这位年轻考古学家思考他所揭露的编年史的那个不那么遥远的时刻之间的千年变得清晰可见。

Whether or not we can decipher the writing upon the wall, the message of Greene's picture is clear. In the penumbra behind the massive pylon is the story of a perished people preserved in stone. The velvet shadows of this eggplant-colored print make tangible the millennia between Ramesses' glory and that less distant moment when the young archaeologist contemplated the chronicle he had exposed.