Protecting Pharaoh's Treasures

Wafaa El Saddik 
With Rüdiger Heimlich
Translated by Russell Stockman

The incisive memoir of the first woman to become general director of Cairo's Egyptian Museum

Growing up in Egypt’s Nile Delta, Wafaa El Saddik was fascinated by the magnificent pharaonic monuments from an early age, and as a student she dreamed of conducting excavations herself and working in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo...