The Real Indiana Jones Who Brought the Book of the Dead to the West

The Real Indiana Jones Who Brought the Book of the Dead to the West

Sailing down the Nile while outrunning the authorities. Deceiving guards and tunneling into buildings to steal priceless artifacts. These were the elements of a gripping tale of archaeological intrigue. But this was not some Hollywood fiction starring Indiana Jones. It was a real drama involving the rogue Egyptologist E.A. Wallis Budge, who retrieved the Papyrus of Ani, the Book of the Dead, for the British Museum, earning fame and villainy in t…