ABSTRACT
Egypt: mystery, magic, pyramids, tombs, buried treasures, Cleopatra, passionate love that wrecked empires, secret symbols and ceremonies. Strategically located at the meeting of Asia, Africa, and Europe, a prize for any world conqueror, Egypt has had a peculiar and enduring fascination for centuries. The essential story of why Egypt still figures prominently in our history, and why tombspace moves the reader forward beyond the era of cavespace, has to do with a major information revolution. A German filmmaker started work on The Pharaoh's Revenge and Hollywood produced The Mummy, featuring tombs, pith helmets, mummies, Egyptologists, and a beautiful blonde heroine. No modem tomb has received more veneration than that of Lenin, in Moscow’s Red Square. Millions of people have gone there to see the well-preserved body of a founder of the USSR. Tombspace has been sacred space for thousands of years and will always remain so.
