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| An early attempt to hack out the goddess Hathor from a scene in the tomb of Thutmosis III, Valley of the Kings |
“I often wish I could put all of Egypt back, restore every flake of missing pigment in every painted Egyptian face in every fresco in every tomb and every temple relief, to bring back to the touch and the eye all the seductive allure of this civilization. I couldn’t imagine living in a world without Egypt. In fact, there are times when I can hardly live in today’s world, knowing what little of Egypt remains. It seems as vital to me as rainforests to the earth and the prospect of its vanishing forever is more scary than the destruction of trees. Something great and deeply thrilling happened here once.”
I share the sentiments of fiction's independent Egyptologist Anson Hunter (The Smiting Texts)
