A World Beneath the Sands by Toby Wilkinson

Author:Toby Wilkinson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2020-09-14T00:00:00+00:00

Many people imagine that archaeology is an armchair science. I would like to see them dangling from a rope, with a 30-metre shaft beneath their feet and an inscription to copy at the bottom of the shaft; or on their belly in a narrow passage dug through the masonry of a pyramid, aware that one false move dislodging a stone could cause 100 tonnes of stone to fall on your back … I have just spent four whole days inside the pyramid of Pepi II at Saqqara … In a couple of places, the masonry is so badly damaged that we never knew if, having entered, we would be able to get out.19

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