MixedLondon Review of Books (UK)Perhaps Egyptology equips people to create illusions. If Toby Wilkinson’s new book, A World Beneath the Sands, is anything to go by, some Egyptologists operate under quite a large one: that the history of their field is something to celebrate rather than scrutinise. The drama plays out against palm trees, pyramids and Nile boats, with top billing for white European men. A few Americans and Englishwomen take minor roles; Egyptians are somewhere in the wings.
