In its Spring 1996 edition, and on the Internet, KMT A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt, published a disparaging review regarding The Scandal of the Century - The Mansoor Amarna Exposé.

KMT wrote:

The Scandal of the Century: The Mansoor Amarna Exposé by Christine Mansoor - 1995, Carlton Press, New York City - 288 pp., 14 b/w photographs - Hardcover $19.50 - ISBN 0-8062-4976-5

For some forty years the several sons of Egyptian antiquities-dealer Mansoor A. Mansoor have collectively attempted and generally failed to persuade the world of Egyptology that they are in possession of a unique (and priceless, although there is a price-tag) assembly of 106 smallish sculpted three-dimensional and relief limestone portraits of members of the Amarna royal family, which had come into their late father's possession over a period of twenty years following World War I. With the exception of fewer than a half-dozen names in the field (chief of those being Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt), Egyptologists in the U.S. and Europe have dismissed these sculptures as blatant (even ugly) forgeries not worthy of serious consideration on a scholarly level.

Now one of Mansoor's grand-daughters, a network-television producer by profession, has authored an understandably somewhat-biased, detailed, documented history of the valiant efforts of her father and uncles in their long-time and on-going efforts (1) to defend their own father's reputation as a thoroughly honest man of high reputation (who would not have dealt in fakes), and (2) to validate the opinions of several non-Egyptologists specialists (geologists, chemists, etc.) that the sculptures in question were, indeed, carved in antiquity and - however much they do not fit into the rather large corpus of accepted Amarna art - must be considered as bonafide antiquities.

There is, however, a marked paranoia in Christine Mansoor's far-from-objective treatment of what her family has always seen as an insidious international conspiracy of villainous Egyptologists determined to deny these sculptures their rightful legacy. This is best summed up in the breathless dust-jacket blurb, which states that Scandal of the Century was written "to expose the unscholarly and tyrannical control that a few scholars have on the art world and our perception of the shape of past civilization"... and to make the public "aware of their influence... so that some protection is established for our ancient heritage and so that the flame of truth is kept burning brightly." The blurb concludes, "Lovers of truth, art, and historical accuracy will breathe easier for having read Ms. Mansoor's important work." (Greg Reeder/James Fierro)

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