A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt and we must change the way things were.

The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3 000 years.

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.