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,
“... Wilkinson’s book, although only in passing).Muhammad Ali lifted the export ban, however, to let Richard Lepsius ship antiquities to Berlin. The head of a Prussian expedition that retraced the savants’ steps in the 1840s, Lepsius made his first visit to the pyramids on 15 October 1842, Friedrich Wilhelm IV’s birthday. On the pyramid of Khufu, his team ... ”