Author Ilka Klose after a career as a merchandiser in the music business, obtained PhD in Egyptology, geography and art history from Mainz University, Germany. She trained as an archaeologist for several years on Elephantine Island in Aswan. Articles by this author issue 3 The Classical Land of Graffiti? Graffiti has always existed in Egypt in one form or another, and, thanks to the proliferation of this form of visual representation, the country itself has sometimes been referred to as ‘the classical land of graffiti’.