"Series of 8 books derives from the proceedings of a conference entitled 'Encounters with Ancient Egypt', held at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London in December 2000"--Editor's foreword.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-216) and index.

1. Introduction : two hundred years of Ancient Egypt : modern history and ancient archaeology / David Jeffreys -- 2. Imperialist appropriations of Egyptian obelisks / Fekri A. Hassan -- 3. Art and antiquities for government's sake / Morris L. Bierbrier -- 4. "Purveyor-general to the hieroglyphics" : Sir William Gell and the development of Egyptology / Jason Thompson -- 5. Some Egyptological sidelights on the Egyptian wara of 1882 / David M. Dixon -- 6. Forgers, scholars and international prestige : ancient Egypt and Spain / José-R. Pérez-Accino and Covadonga Sevilla Cueva (French translated by Daniel Antoine and Lawrence Stewart Owens) -- 7. 'Trans-Atlantic pyramidology', Orientalism, and empire : ancient Egypt and the 19th century of archaeological experience of Mesoamerica / Isabel Medina-González -- 8. Egypt and the diffusion of culture / Timothy Champion -- 9. Approaching the peasantry of Greco-Roman Egypt : from Rostovtzeff to rhetoric / Jane Rowlandson -- 10. The British and the Copts / Mary Horbury -- 11. Ancient Egypt and the archaeology of the disenfranchised / Sandra A. Scham -- 12. Forgetting the Ancien Régime : republican values and the study of the ancient Orient / David Wengrow.

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Electronic reproduction. [London, Eng. : Taylor and Francis, 2012]. PDF file created from digital scan of print book.