This blog's self-description:

" Washing the Book.
Egyptology, archaeology, life in Asia, America, and the Middle East, music, thoughts, and ideas. From the perspective of an independent academic and traveller. "

From the blogger's profile:

" Egyptologist, archaeologist, and citizen of the world. I've been working in Egypt at the sacred site of Abydos since 1988, and now direct my own excavation, which centers on the monuments of King Ahmose (ca 1550-1525 BC). I've taught at universities, worked in museums, and travelled a lot. Right now, I'm living between New York City and Hong Kong, with lots of travel on the side. I'm interested in a lot of topics aside from ancient and modern Egypt, however, including all periods of art, art history theory, narrative, languages ancient and modern, and performing arts such as theater, puppetry, and music. Another huge fascination is the religion and culture of India - a place I have not yet visited. Life seems to hold lots of mysteries yet! "


        The blogger, Steve Harvey, a new part-time HK resident, has a lot on his plate; a man who has a broad horizon and enormous appetite for life. It's not our policy to verify a blogger's credentials; but judging by the way he commands the language and his knowledge of the topics he writes about, we believe, at the least, he is formally educated and well-read. His writing has tell-tale signs of a man who has devoured shelves and shelves of books.

        With more and more blogs online, it seems, more and more bloggers are writing more or less the same thing, the only difference is the name of the blog. Their blogs have pretty much the same cookie-cutter type of layouts and look basically the same. In the sameness of the blogging world these days, this blog, WASHING THE BOOK, is like a hard-to-find fossil or artifact in a vast ancient ruin or archaeological find. After you've spent time reading this blog, you would feel you did not waste your time on it and have learned something fascinating.

        On a side note, being an archaeologist, Professor Harvey will find HK blogs a fertile ground for studying 19th-century colonialism and its beneficiaries -- many "relics" or "fossils" of our colonial era are well preserved in some HK blogs today. Good hunting.

        Hong Kong Blogs Review recommends this partial HK blog, WASHING THE BOOK. Go take a dig in this blog, you never know what treasure you may find.