Letter: Pyramid publishing

Boyd Tonkin castigates book publishers for encouraging New Age nonsense about ancient Egypt to flourish - and rightly so. But what about the mote in his own eye?

The American Egyptologist Mark Lehner knows a thing or two about the Sphinx and the pyramids, having spent 20 years studying them in the field. Yet when he publishes a popular book on the subject (The Complete Pyramids, Thames and Hudson, 1997), packed with new ideas and verifiable information, what do the broadsheet literary editors do? They ignore him.

COLIN RIDLER

Archaeology Editor

Thames and Hudson Ltd

London WC1