Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- A note on transliteration from ancient Egyptian -- 1 Introduction: Egypt Ancient and Modern -- 2 The Wisdom of Egypt: Classical Views -- 3 Ancient Egypt in Medieval Arabic Writings -- 4 Images of Ancient Egypt in the Latin Middle Ages -- 5 The Renaissance Afterlife of Ancient Egypt (1400-1650) -- 6 Ancient Egypt in 17th and 18th Century England -- 7 Beyond Egyptology: Egypt in 19th and 20th Century Archaeology and Anthropology -- References -- Index