1. Two hundred years of ancient Egypt: modern history and ancient archaeology / David Jeffreys
2. Imperialist appropriations of Egyptian Obelisks / Fekri A. Hassan
3. Art and antiquities for government's sake / Morris L. Bierbrier
4. "Purveyor-general to the hieroglyphics": Sir William Gell and the development of Egyptology / Jason Thompson
5. Some Egyptological sidelights on the Egyptian war of 1882 / David M. Dixon
6. Forgers, scholars, and international prestige: ancient Egypt and Spain / José-R. Pérez-Accino and Covadonga Sevilla Cueva (French translated by Daniel Antoine and Lawrence Stewart Owens)
7. 'Trans-Atlantic pyramidology', orientalism, and empire: ancient Egypt and the 19th century archaeological experience of Mesoamerica / Isabel Medina-González
8. Egypt and the diffusion of culture / Timothy Champion
9. Approaching the peasantry of Greco-Roman Egypt: from Rostovtzeff to rhetoric / Jane Rowlandson
10. The British and the Copts / Mary Horbury
11. Ancient Egypt and the archaeology of the disenfranchised / Sandra A. Scham
12. Forgetting the Ancien Régime: republican values and the study of the ancient Orient / David Wengrow.