Don’t let your child become an archaeologist
Lynn Barber’s tongue-in-cheek comment about taking your children on an Egypt vacation:
“Incidentally if you have children of an impressionable age, do not take them to Egypt because it will inevitably make them want to become archaeologists when they grow up and then they will spend their adult lives sorting shards in some dim county museum. Most of the tour guides in Egypt are fully trained Egyptologists who have done a four-year degree at Cairo university and often post-graduate research or an internship at the British Museum as well, and their fate is to end up lecturing idiots like me about the difference between papyrus and lotus columns or how to pronounce Hatshepsut. Egyptology is an incredibly alluring subject, but a disastrous career, I suspect. Nevertheless I can see why people get totally hooked, and why I will be going to Egypt again and again.”
Her full article on the Observer “Hooked on classics: how I fell for Egypt” is simply excellent and worth reading.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/feb/03/cairo.egypt
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