…a knot of Roman tourists gathered around a display of allegedly antique pottery…

Posted September 3, 2020 by Dana

I traveled to Egypt in December 2019 for research for the Eye of Isis series, set in Alexandria in the time of Cleopatra.

The Sphinx at Giza, in front of the Pyramid of the Pharaoh Khafre, in whose image the Sphinx was made.

…a knot of Roman tourists gathered around a display of allegedly antique pottery and statuary featuring the entire panoply of Egyptian gods and goddesses going all the way back, according to the lively, sharp-featured proprietor, to the First Dynasty. The Romans, displaying that touching reverence mixed with inferiority with which they approached all things pharaonic, looked only too willing to believe him. — Death of An Eye, 2018