
Canadian Egyptologist - Rexine Hummel
Part IV - Sinai Bedouin Meal
Photo: Rexine and Patrick being served tea after the meal

A Sand County Review
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There - by Aldo Leopold (1949)

For the Love of Greece💙
I have visited Greece 5 times since 1992, and the last time was a decade ago (2014). Following is my description of this latest excursion.
Photo: Agios Ioannis Chapel, Skopelos

Canadian Egyptologist - Rexine Hummel
Part III - Sinai
Photo: Rexine at the Temple of Hathor, Serabit el-Khadim (DD, 2004)


Canadian Egyptologist - Rexine Hummel
Rexine Hummel on her first dig in East Karnak in 1976.

Canadian Egyptologist - Rexine Hummel
Rexine Hummel (right) is an amazing Canadian archaeologist and ceramicist who specializes in Ancient Egypt. She is the focus of a series of posts that I am writing on Canadian female Egyptologists!

Review: Women in the Valley of the Kings
Women in the Valley of the Kings - by Kathleen Sheppard (2024)



Immersive travel writing
Photo: An inscribed block from Karnak Temple (2018)
Some of my favourite passages about travel.

19th century travel in Egypt
Cook's tourists' handbook for Egypt, the Nile, and the Desert