Review: Good and bad aspects
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 30, 2013
Good in that Ms Le Veque certainly can tell a good story.Disappointing in poor editing, a heroine who too often behaves like a spoilt child and the lack of respect by the characters for Egyptian archaeology and artefacts.Also illogical. Surely an important sarcophagus and artefacts smuggled from Egypt in the early 1920s could not legally be bought by a British museum without being claimed by Egypt? Why bring the original journal to Egypt? A copy would have sufficed and its theft not be so shattering. Same with the original papyrus, which would be subject to confiscation.A few examples of silly errors - sight = site / Ptolemic = Ptolemaic / "all of which Morgan found it quite fascinating".