Many cultures and races have left their mark on Egypt, but none have eclipsed the surviving customs from ancient Egypt, from fertility rituals and funerary rites to the cult of saints, snake-charmers and magicians. Here, Sattin has tracked down examples of ancient survivals in the hurly-burly of modern Egypt.
Many cultures and races have left their mark on Egypt, but none have eclipsed the surviving customs from ancient Egypt, from fertility rituals and fun...
T. E. Lawrence was one of the most charismatic characters of the First World War; a young archaeologist who fought with the Arabs and wrote an epic and very personal account of their revolt against the Turks in Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Yet this was not the first book to carry that iconic title. In 1914 the man who would become Lawrence of Arabia burnt the first Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a manuscript in which he described his adventures in the Middle East during the five years before the war. Anthony Sattin uncovers the story Lawrence wanted to conceal: the truth of his birth, his tortuous...
T. E. Lawrence was one of the most charismatic characters of the First World War; a young archaeologist who fought with the Arabs and wrote an epic an...
