A World Beneath the Sands Quotes

“The only Egyptian immortalized on the building was the reigning khedive, Abbas II -- a puppet ruler, propped up by the British -- and his inscription was in Latin.”
― Toby Wilkinson, A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology

“It is the business of the archaeologist to wake the dreaming dead: not to send the living to sleep.1 ARTHUR WEIGALL, 1923”
― Toby Wilkinson, A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology