About the Author

Zahi Hawass is director-general of the Giza Pyramids and Saqqara. He is the author of many books on Egyptology, most recently The Valley of the Golden Mummies (AUC Press, 2000). Lyla Pinch Brock is the Assistant Director of the Tell Borg Project and Co - Director of the Theban Tombs Project for the Royal Ontario Museum. She is also the illustrator of The Shipwrecked Sailor (AUC Press, 1998).