Over 12 years ago, I had the honour of receiving a phone call from Mrs Jihan El-Sadat. Mrs Sadat wanted to tell me about a lady named Nancy Binz, who had heard about my discovery of the Valley of the Golden Mummies and dreamt of seeing it for herself.

I began receiving faxes every day from Binz, but I could not answer them because at that time there was no e-mail, and my office at the Giza Pyramids did not have an international line. Binz could not believe that her faxes were going unanswered. She called Ambassador Hager El-Stanbouli in San Francisco, and asked her to contact me. Then, she called Mrs Sadat, who told her, "Nancy, come to Egypt, and you will see this great discovery."

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