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A review by andrealoverke
Across Ancient Sands: Uncovering a Bronze Age journey around the Mediterranean Sea by Eric Horn
3.0
It's always nice to read a story and feel that the author knows what he is writing about. That is surely the case in this book. You can really feel he has been part of archeological digs.
This book switches between a poem, the ancient carvings on the wall they find and the dig story in itself. Jade and Tariq discover a papyrus that talks about the journey of Sfas. In the poem we meet all the gods you can possibly think of from Bronze Age Greece and Homer's stories but also Egyptian pharaohs and Phoenician gods. It all blends beautifully together.
I have to admit I didn't go back and forth between the notes and the story though because I always lost track of the page I was on. So I let that go after a couple of pages. But it didn't make the story less interesting. I might not have gotten the whole poem though because of some names I didn't know. But I read them all at the end.
This book switches between a poem, the ancient carvings on the wall they find and the dig story in itself. Jade and Tariq discover a papyrus that talks about the journey of Sfas. In the poem we meet all the gods you can possibly think of from Bronze Age Greece and Homer's stories but also Egyptian pharaohs and Phoenician gods. It all blends beautifully together.
I have to admit I didn't go back and forth between the notes and the story though because I always lost track of the page I was on. So I let that go after a couple of pages. But it didn't make the story less interesting. I might not have gotten the whole poem though because of some names I didn't know. But I read them all at the end.