Christmas Day I wasn’t sure what I was going to do today, so I set out walking towards Luxor town centre. Much to my surprise, after the jackal and the hawk of previous days, as I crossed the road by the entrance to Karnak I came across a black cat sitting in the undergrowth washing…

The last two days seem to have flown past. Christmas Eve saw me on the West Bank visiting what is known as the Theban Necropolis, a vast area covering 2 square miles (5 square kilometres). The Valley of the Kings is a name familiar to most of us from various documentaries, but not so well…

After yesterday’s failure to find Akhenaten’s temple, I returned to Karnak this morning armed with a pdf copy of a photograph taken during the excavations done in the 70s. I was determined to find the temple site, or at least the place where it once stood. Again, as it was early, the whole complex was…

Luxor temple is beautiful, there is no other way to describe it. Built primarily by Amenhotep III and finished by Rameses the Great, with a mid section by Tutankhamun and his successors, it was the spiritual home of Mut, the wife of Amun Ra. Because of the political situation in Egypt, tourists are quite thin…

I find myself a year later writing to you once more, not begging for financial aid this time, but to keep you informed as to where things are. I am not as far with the book as I had hoped to be, for a variety of reasons, mostly beyond my control, however, this doesn’t mean…