![]() ![]() I was so taken by one of these- The Indus, by Andrew Robinson-that I put the others on a birthday list later fulfilled by my wonderful wife, so I now own the remainder of the set, each one destined to sit in queue in my ever-lengthening TBR until its time arrives. “Freud’s housekeeper recalled that he often stroked the smooth head of the stone baboon, like a favourite pet.” This anecdote serves as an introduction to Egypt, by Christina Riggs, a 2017 addition to the wonderful Lost Civilizations series that also features volumes devoted to the Etruscans, the Persians, and the Goths. On the great exile’s preserved desk still sits a good number of statuettes from ancient cultures that he collected, including on one corner a carved stone baboon-known as the “Baboon of Thoth”-symbolic of that ancient Egyptian deity identified with both writing and wisdom. Apparently, Sigmund Freud spent the final year of his long and productive life as a refugee from the Nazi menace, in a house in London that is now a museum to his legacy.
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