Bargain @ 99 cents from HarperCollins in Canada & the US (non-couponable, price should be the same at all the usual retailers):
Beneath the Sands of Egypt: Adventures of an Unconventional Archaeologist by Donald P. Ryan, PhD (
Wikipedia), a memoir of his scientific experiences which include several important excavations. The full blurb for this has an endorsement by the late Egyptologist Barbara Mertz aka mystery author Elizabeth Peters (
Wikipedia) of Amelia Peabody series fame. (He in turn gave part-dedication to her in a humorous history-lite faux travel book,
Ancient Egypt on Seven Deben A Day, which I quite enjoyed when I
read it several years back while I was reading assorted Peters mysteries.)
A real-life “Indiana Jones,” Donald P. Ryan, Ph.D., offers a breathtaking personal account of his adventures in archaeology in Beneath the Sands of Egypt. Fans of The Lost City of Z will thrill to the exploits of this “unconventional archaeologist” as he retrieves the remains of Egypt’s past—including his breakthrough discovery in the Valley of the Kings of Egypt’s famous female pharaoh, Hatshepsut.