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Article: Nefertiti: lived here. (Book Reviews).(Statistical Data Included)
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NEFERTITI LIVED HERE By Mary Chubb published by Libri ISBN 1 901965 01 5 price 9.95 [pounds sterling] paperback
In 1930 five young archaeologists, led by the charismatic John Pendlebury, embarked on an expedition to Egypt to investigate the site of Tell el Amarna. They were accompanied by a secretary, on her first trip to Egypt, whose task it was to chronicle the dig. Here, Mary Chubb recounts their adventures in her classic account of the excitement of discovery in the golden age of archaeology
Most archaeological reports are as dry as dust and there are lamentably few accounts able to flesh out their bare bones. One of the best memoirs of excavation ...