Okay so just because someone may be an expert in a subject doesn’t mean they are qualified to write about it. Donald Ryan may be a marvelous Egyptologist but he is a terrible writer. You know if the book had focused more on the “hard” topics like preservation or actual archaeology then it would probably have been worthwhile but instead it becomes a really light weight restating of his career and some poorly remembered and badly recounted anecdotes that do not do enough to flesh out the tome. Awful, avoid.
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Tags: Archaeology, Books, History
