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“... and had a sideline as a set designer. 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 ...”

“... The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones’s The Cleopatras and Toby Wilkinson’s The Last Dynasty. Bédoyère, the most conventional and conservative of the three (he is surprisingly chary of contemporaneous evidence), likens the story of the Ptolemies to Game of Thrones. By contrast, Llewellyn-Jones approaches ...”