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(More customer reviews)Mary Chubb's writing is highly readable and engaging. Her memoir opens on a dreary 1929 February morning in Bloomsbury England, when she finds herself in the basement of the local Egyptological Society offices as the secretary searching for some lost file. She finds instead an ancient Egyptian tile, taken from a dig at Tell el Amarna and stored in the Society's offices with the sand from Egypt still on it.
That one little tile sparks her imagination to travel to Egypt with the next expedition and what follows is a fantastic true story of her adventures on the archaeological dig in the Heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten and his lovely Queen Nefertiti's city.
I have rarely read such a lovely, lighthearted but factual account of someone's travels. A witty, fast-paced book that reads much like a novel, I highly recommend Nefertiti Lived Here to anyone interested in Egypt, memoirs or travel writing in general.
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This is the first book written by archaeologist and broadcastor Mary Chubb about her adventures and experiences on various digs in the Near East and East Mediterranean. This story concerns her time at the site of Tell el Amarna in Egypt, the city of Akhenaten, in 1930. Written as a novel, but full of historical facts and real-life experiences.
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