Ancient Egypt has long been a source of fascination in Western popular culture. Movies such as The Mummy (1932, 1959), Biblical epics like The Ten Commandments

Ancient Egypt has always been a source of fascination to writers, artists and architects in the West. This book is the first study to address representations of

Egyptomania takes us on a historical journey to unearth the Egypt of the imagination, a land of strange gods, mysterious magic, secret knowledge, monumental pyr

Ancient Egypt has always been a source of fascination to writers, artists and architects in the West. This book is the first study to address representations of

Ancient Egypt includes accounts of key themes that have long preoccupied the popular imagination, including the religious mysteries of the great temples of Karn