The upper texts often became a confusing mixture of sacred and secular—and even anticlerical—poems, indicating its intended performance in courtly as well as ecclesiastical settings.
There are elegant pottery statues of court ladies from the Tang dynasty, a tiny boat carved from an olive stone—it's even difficult to make out the details from a magnifying glass.
Tutankhamun will be actually the one who will take the visitor back in history 3,500 years to show how a royal court in ancient Egypt in the 18th dynasty, 3 and a half thousand years ago would look like.
It's a Germanic language but it has many other influences, and a written tradition going back several hundred years to when it was the official language of the burgh and royal court.