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 Edward William Lane's Description of Egypt (AUC Press, pbk, 2019) and An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (AUC Press, 2003).

Jaromir Malek holds a doctorate in Egyptology from Charles University, Prague and was formerly the editor of the Topographical Bibliography , a project of the Oriental Institute at the University of Oxford.

Introduction
1. Historical Outline
2. Egyptology in Antiquity
3. A Medieval Hiatus
4. Ancient Egypt in the Renaissance and Early Modern Imagination
5. Ancient Egypt in the Age of the Enlightenment
6. The Discovery of Ancient Egypt
7. The Decipherment of the Hieroglyphs
8. Lifting the Veil
9. Egypt Itself
10. Hiatus
11. Consolidation
12. Preservation and Depredation
13. Taking Possession of Egypt for the Cause of Science
14. Mariette's Monopoly
15. Ancient Egypt in Nineteenth-Century Art, Photography, and Literature
16. The Golden Age
17. The Post-Maspero Antiquities Service
18. The Seven Hathors
19. New Horizons
20. Greco-Roman Egypt
21. Loret's Interlude
22. The Return of Maspero
23. Return of Maspero (cont.)
24. The Berlin School
25. Egyptology Comes to America
26. The United States Enters the Field
27. Attention Turns South
28. The Twilight of the Golden Age