Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Robert Morkot

Born: 1957 (age 68)
Bio: Robert George Morkot is an archaeologist and academic, specialising in Ancient Egypt. He is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Exeter.
Known for:
- The black pharaohs (2000)
- The Egyptians (2004)
- The Empires of Ancient Egypt (2001)
- Ancient Egypt and the Middle East (2001)