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44/100Critics
67/100Scholars
Author:
Toby Wilkinson
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Date:
October 20, 2020
A history of the West's scramble for the riches of ancient Egypt by the foremost Egyptologist of our time.
What The Reviewers Say
Wilkinson’s ambitious focus is the hundred years of Egyptology between Jean-Francois Champollion’s groundbreaking deciphering of the Rosetta stone in 1822 and Howard Carter’s sensational discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1922.
A World Beneath the Sands tells a gripping story by means of all the wayward eccentrics and heroic archaeologists who devoted their lives to uncovering the world’s most ancient and dazzling monuments from beneath unimaginable depths of windblown sand.
Toby Wilkinson’s new history of the golden age of Egyptology is also very much a history of western willy-waving.
... [a] fine history of Egyptian archaeology, which, besides being a splendid survey of real-life Egyptian civilization, provides answers to interesting archaeological questions.
