Includes extensively revised and updated papers originally presented at a conference held at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London in December 2000.
Introduction : ' ... since the time of the Gods' / John Tait
The ancient Egyptian view of world history / E.P. Uphill
Archaism and modernism in the reliefs of Hesy-Ra / Whitney Davis
Looking back into the future : the Middle Kingdom as a bridge to the past / Dietrich Wildung ; translated by Fiona Handley
Archaism and innovation in art from the New Kingdom to the Twenty-sixth Dynasty / Robert Morkot
Literature as a construction of the past in the Middle Kingdom / Ludwig D. Morenz ; translated by Martin Worthington
Representations of the past in New Kingdom literature / Hans W. Fischer-Elfert
Views of the past in Egypt during the first millennium BC / Antonio Loprieno
Egypt's views of 'others' / David O'Connor
Foreigners at Memphis? : Petrie's racial types / Sally-Ann Ashton
All in the family? : heirlooms in ancient Egypt / David Jeffreys
The Ptolemaic royal image and the Egyptian tradition / Sally-Ann Ashton.
'Never had the like occurred' : Egypt's view of its past. ISBN 1844720071. Published by UCL in 2003. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.