A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology by Toby A. H. Wilkinson
Author:Toby A. H. Wilkinson [Wilkinson, Toby A. H.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2020-10-20T00:00:00+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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