Description of Egypt

Jason Thompson is the author of Sir Gardiner Wilkinson and His Circle, Edward William Lane (AUC Press, 2010), and Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology (3 vols.; AUC Press, 2015, 2018). He is the editor of An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (AUC Press, 2003).

Contents
Map of Egypt ix
List of Figures xi
List of Tables xv
List of Abbreviations xvii
Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Dates xix
Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction 1
Part One: Egyptology and Pharaonism to 1930
1. Egyptology and Pharaonism in Egypt before Tutankhamun 19
2. Nationalizing Tutankhamun 51
3. Western Egyptology in Egypt in the Wake of Tutankhamun, 1922–1930 81
4. Egyptian Egyptology and Pharaonism in the Wake of Tutankhamun, 1922–1930 109
Part Two: Tourism and Islamic, Coptic, and Greco–Roman Archaeologies
5. Consuming Antiquity: Western Tourism between Two Revolutions, 1919–1952 137
6. In the Shadow of Egyptology: Islamic Art and Archaeology to 1952 167
7. Copts and Archaeology: Sons of Saint Mark / Sons of the Pharaohs 197
8. Alexandria, Egypt, and the Greco–Roman Heritage 229
Part Three: Egyptology and Pharaonism to Nasser’s Revolution
9. Contesting Egyptology in the 1930s 263
10. Pharaonism and Its Challengers in the 1930s and 1940s 295
11. Egyptology in the Twilight of Empire and Monarchy, 1939–1952 329
12. Conclusion 355
Notes 369
Bibliography 449
Index 481