A review by psalmcat
Temples, Tombs & Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt by Barbara Mertz

5.0

It's so much fun to find that a fiction writer you love is just as good at writing nonfiction! Mertz knows when the discussion of pharaohs gets boring and switches up with a perfect tangent that encapsulates the life of one of the many Amenhoteps and Ramses in the list. She also manages to explain the different periods, why they exist, and ties it all together with other historical events in what we now call the Middle East. And the parts that bore her? She skips lightly over them with a caustic comment.

There are a lot of caustic comments about things she doesn't skip as well.