Recently, I gave a lecture at the Sofitel Hotel in Cairo for a group of about 60 Americans. Before I gave my lecture I was sitting in the lecture hall waiting for the group to arrive, and a woman and her husband approached me.  The woman’s name is Sara Child Stevens, and she is the grandniece of the famous Egyptologist Herbert Winlock. She very kindly presented me with a first edition of his book “Excavations at Deir el-Bahri 1911-1931,” which had she signed for me.

Herbert Winlock was a very important and talented American Egyptologist who worked in the first half of the 20^th century. He worked for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York with their Egyptian Expedition for over 25 years as the field director. Through his work, many important objects were recovered for study, many of which are now in the Egyptian collection of the Metropolitan Museum.

I was very happy that his grandniece Sara gave me this book about his most important work. I would very much like to send her one of my books as a thank you gift.