16 Jun 2025
by Chris Elliott

Two Months on the Nile: Thomas Sandwith’s Nineteenth-Century Egyptian Journey

Chris Elliott reviews the dahabiya journal of Thomas Sandwith, edited by Stephen Boys Smith, revealing the reality of some 19th-Century excavation practices.

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