We know it intimately
Christina Riggs: Rummaging for Mummies, 22 October 2020
A World beneath the Sands: Adventurers and Archaeologists in the Golden Age of Egyptology
by Toby Wilkinson.
Picador, 510 pp., £25, October,978 1 5098 5870 5 Show More
by Toby Wilkinson.
Picador, 510 pp., £25, October,
“... and had a sideline as a set designer. Perhaps Egyptology equips people to create illusions. If Toby Wilkinson’s new book, A World beneath the Sands, is anything to go by, some Egyptologists operate under quite a large one: that the history of their field is something to celebrate rather than scrutinise. The drama plays out against palm ... ”
