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3.5
I never read the original version of this book, but I'm glad it has been updated with more current things that have been happening as when it was published 50 years ago was quite along time ago, especially when you're writing non fiction. So I'm glad this version is more current and updated. Though even this current version is 20 years old, which is a bit of a shame. I'm surprised I hadn't already read it, I read every single book in the library of Ancient Egypt. Ancient Egypt has always fascinated me since I was a child so I found this to be very interesting. I didn't realise how much politics can effect archaeology before. It is written excellently and the author really brings the people involved back to life. You can tell that he has done his research. It makes me so sad about how certain people treated these precious things like vultures, they stole, destroyed and if they couldn't have it, no one could. A lot of the people in this book didn't give these relics the respect they deserved and so much was lost due to people being greedy e.g. unwrapping parties, ground up mummy in medicine. None of that should've happened. It is an utterly fascinating book and I reccomend it if the subject matter interests you.
I never read the original version of this book, but I'm glad it has been updated with more current things that have been happening as when it was published 50 years ago was quite along time ago, especially when you're writing non fiction. So I'm glad this version is more current and updated. Though even this current version is 20 years old, which is a bit of a shame. I'm surprised I hadn't already read it, I read every single book in the library of Ancient Egypt. Ancient Egypt has always fascinated me since I was a child so I found this to be very interesting. I didn't realise how much politics can effect archaeology before. It is written excellently and the author really brings the people involved back to life. You can tell that he has done his research. It makes me so sad about how certain people treated these precious things like vultures, they stole, destroyed and if they couldn't have it, no one could. A lot of the people in this book didn't give these relics the respect they deserved and so much was lost due to people being greedy e.g. unwrapping parties, ground up mummy in medicine. None of that should've happened. It is an utterly fascinating book and I reccomend it if the subject matter interests you.