Includes extensively revised and updated papers originally presented at a conference held at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London in December 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-242) and indexes.

1. Introduction: the worlds of ancient Egypt : aspects, sources, interactions / Roger Matthews and Cornelia Roemer -- 2. South Levantine encounters with ancient Egypt at the beginning of the third millennium / Eliot Braun -- 3. Egyptian stone vessels and the politics of exchange (2617-1070 BC) / Rachael Thyrza Sparks -- 4. Reconstructing the role of Egyptian culture in the value regimes of the Bronze Age Aegean : stone vessels and their social contexts / Andrew Bevan -- 5. Love and war in the late Bronze Age : Egypt and Hatti / David Warburton -- 6. Egypt and mesopotamia in the late Bronze and Iron Ages / David Warburton and Roger Matthews -- 7. Finding the Egyptian in early Greek art / Jeremy Tanner -- 8. Upside down and back to front : Herodotus and the Greek encounter with Egypt / Thomas Harrison -- 9. Encounters with ancient Egypt : the Hellenistic Greek experience / Csaba A. La'da -- 10. Pilgrimage in Greco-Roman Egypt : new perspectives on graffiti from the Memnonion at Abydos / Ian Rutherford -- 11. Carry-on at Canopus : the Nilotic mosaic from palestrina and Roman attitudes to Egypt / Susan Walker -- 12. Roman poets on Egypt / Herwig Maehler.

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