Table of Contents

Introduction: 'since the time of the God'; The Ancient Egyptian View of World History; Archaism and Modernism in the Reliefs of Hesy-Ra; Looking Back into the Future: The Middle Kingdom as a Bridge to the Past; Archaism and Innovation in Art from the New Kingdom to the twenty-sixth Dynasty; Literature as a Construction of the Past in the Middle Kingdom; Representations of the Past in New Kingdom Literature; Views of the Past in Egypt During the First Millennium BC; Egypt's Views of 'Others'; Foreigners at Memphis? Petrie's Racial Types; All in the Family? Heirlooms in Ancient Egypt; The Ptolemaic Royal Image and the Egyptian Tradition.

About the Author

John Tait is Edwards Professor of Egyptology at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL.

Reviews

'the series is well organized, informative and comprehensive. Through careful analysis of a multiplicity of sources at hand, the authors, who come from a great variety of disciplines, have presented us with a series that is at once substantial as well as engaging and innovative. An extraordinary work of synthesis, the series promises to endure as an important contribution to the study of Ancient Egypt. - Professor Ronald J Leprohon, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilisation, University of Toronto. '