1: Introduction: the story so far
2: Discovering and inventing: constructing ancient Egypt
3: History: building chronologies and writing histories
4: Writing: the origins and implications of hieroglyphs
5: Kingship: stereotyping and the 'oriental despot'
6: Identity: issues of ethnicity, race, and gender
7: Death: mummification, dismemberment, and the cult of Osiris
8: Religion: Egyptian gods and temples
9: Egyptomania: the recylcing and reinventing of Egypt's icons and
images
References
Further reading
Useful websites
Glossary
Timeline
Index
Ian Shaw studied Archaeology and Egyptology at Cambridge University
from 1979 to 1983. He obtained his PhD (a study of the artefacts at
el-Amarna) from Wolfson College, Cambridge University in 1987. From
1986 to 1990 he edited the ancient Egyptian section of the
Macmillan Dictionary of Art. From 1990 to 1994, he undertook
research into Egyptian quarrying and mining sites as a British
Academy Research Fellow at New Hall, Cambridge. From 1995 to 2000
he was
a Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology,
University College London. He is currently Lecturer in Classics and
Oriental Studies at the University of Liverpool.
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