Tea on the Terrace: Hotels and Egyptologists’ Social Networks, 1885-1925

REVIEW: Anna Garnett For many of us, it is the human stories behind major archaeological discoveries that first spark our fascination with Egyptology. Who were the people on the excavation teams? What did they do, and how did they spend their leisure time? This exciting new volume sheds light on some of these questions by exploring the social history of excavation in Egypt during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, set within the wider history of tourism in archaeology. Before a field season began, it was essential (and remains so today) to spend some days in a large urban area to gather supplies, organise transportation and a workforce, and to deal with excavation permits. For