"Theodor M. Davis emerges from this work as a complicated and highly intelligent man, whose interest in Egypt and archaeology led him to contribute quite profoundly to great discoveries. His commitment may have been to the excitement and to the exotic nature of excavation in Egypt, but this hardly negates the results of his expeditions. [ . . . ] new information about the man who sponsored so much of the excavation in the Valley of the Kings has been revealed." from the Preface by Betsy M. Bryan