My Own Summer Week at Oxford
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, March, 1999 by Arthur Frommer
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We shall begin with the period approximately seven hundred thousand years ago, when hominids first entered the Valley of the Nile."
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With those words, an Oxford instructor - one of those awesome "dons" you've read about in British novels - began a one-week course in Ancient Egyptian Civilization that Roberta (my wife) and I attended in August of last year. In the course of six successive days, which included four hours of lectures each morning and afternoons spent in the Egyptology rooms of the famed Ashmolean Museum and Library of Britain's most famous university, we each (a) wrote an original, footnote-studded paper for delivery on the last day of class, (b) prepared and presented a final oral report to our eight fellow students (all British), (c) attended two one-on-one "tutorials" with our distinguished teacher (an archaeologist who has herself led an important excavation of prehistoric Egyptian settlements), and (d) ...
