Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Hubert Robert, Giovanni Paolo Panini and John Martin. Chapters on Egypt by the man who was Inspector-General of Antiquities there: temple robbery, the misery of excavation, why the dead were painted, and what a modern Egyptian makes of the tourists. Weigall wrote in 1911 for readers who thought archaeology was treasure-hunting, and argued that it is mostly bookkeeping and heat. He is funny about his colleagues and serious about the looting. Sixty plates from 1640 to 1911, among them Turner and John Martin, carry the same ruined-monument light the chapters describe.