What’s new from Dr. Obelisk?

This is the start of my new web site, devoted to the ways in which Ancient Egypt has influenced us over the centuries. Eventually, it will replace two existing sites, for Egyptian London and Egypt in England. That in itself reflects the way in which my research started off years ago by looking at London’s connections with Egypt, then at Egyptian style architecture in England, and then it just kept expanding. My last book looked at the reasons why there are two obelisks in London and New York, and why it took nearly eighty years for the one in London to get there. My next will try to explain what it is about Ancient Egypt that we find so fascinating, and whether Egyptomania is actually more about us than the Ancient Egyptians.