I really enjoyed this book. It is very well written and the author is clearly very knowledgable. Basically this book covers the major themes of Egyptology but not in chronological order. This sometimes leads to confusion and some of the pieces are hard to follow. I understand that a chronological history would have been impossible in the VSI format. My take home message from this book is that nearly everything we suppose we know from our general knowledge about ancient Egypt is untrue or at the best more complicated than we thought. Indeed, all the suppositions of earlier archeologists are biased because only certain types of artifacts have survived or yet to be unearthed. The book does deal with some of the postmodern inventions, the nubianization of history and the more outlandish ideas about the pyramids for instance.
