I didn’t buy this book – it was bought for me. From the cover it looks like yet another aliens built the pyramids book. As it happens they do discuss aliens, but they do rationally and with a simple logic. Take for instance the claim by Robert Temple (The Sirius Mystery) on the weathering of the Sphinx. Temple argues that the erosion was caused because the enclosure of the Sphinx was filled with water for aliens, who were amphibians, to swim in. My ‘refutation’ would probably go something along the lines of “Don’t be so bloody stupid”. This is not helpful. Lawton and Ogilvie-Herald approach it with a lighter touch. “Since the water would drain away without constant refilling, we do not regard this as very likely.”

Like the anti-archaeology books it tackles, it’s bit of a door-stop at over 550 pages. It is rather dry in places, but it is a useful dissection of the deceit practiced by anti-archaeologists in Egypt. It also reveal how the deceit spreads in to the politics of work on the Giza plateau.

Meanwhile we have already seen in Chapter 10 that Bauval and Hancock had originally been invited to join the Schor expeditions, but More >