Valley of the Golden Mummies

So much of what we know about the lives of early Egyptians has been filtered through Western scientists. Hawass provides not only the perspective of an archaeologist- he is director general of the Giza Pyramids and field director of the Bahariya Oasis excavation- but also that of a native steeped in the land and the culture. His evocative narrative weaves together stories of the upper-middle-class families buried in the Valley with tales of modern...