Dead Towns and Living Men
Sir Leonard Woolley
Philosophical Library
For anyone who would be a field archæologist Egypt is an admirable preparatory school, though its teaching is strictly limited and for his higher education the pupil must pass on to other establishments. It is a rich hunting-ground and generally provides plenty of objects, so that he quickly gets experience in the handling of “antikas it does not give great scope for the imagination, because so much work has been done in the Nile Valley that its archæology is for the most part well known, and he can, and must, at almost every turn check his results by reference to the published records of his predecessors; in that way he can avoid palpable mistakes; moreover, if he is to add any detail at all to the knowledge we already possess, it can only be done by really minute observation and the most painstaking method.
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