I'm enjoying this. Otto Neubert was an Archaeologist/Egyptologist who was with Howard Carter when he opened the Tomb of Tutankhamun.
He's good with his history - and, with almost 4,000 years of "civilized" history, (how many Pharaohs?) there's a lot to explore. And it rivals - surpasses - anything in the wildest Indiana Jones movie. Subterranean crypts filled with the bodies of hundreds of slaves murdered to protect the hiding place of the tombs, the vast necropolises for cats, crocodiles, herons, you name it, the culture of almost perpetual grave-robbing, the empire was cannibalizing it's dead shortly after they were hidden in the ground, and have been doing so for thousands of years...
I could go on. It's not a great book, but it captures something of the flavor of what Egypt once was, and the thrill of discovery that continues to this day...