- Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award for Single Volume Reference in the Humanities & Social Sciences
- Features contributions from top scholars in their respective fields of expertise relating to ancient Egyptian art
- Provides overviews of past and present scholarship and suggests new avenues to stimulate debate and allow for critical readings of individual art works
- Explores themes and topics such as methodological approaches, transmission of Egyptian art and its connections with other cultures, ancient reception, technology and interpretation,
- Provides a comprehensive synthesis on a discipline that has diversified to the extent that it now incorporates subjects ranging from gender theory to 'X-ray fluorescence' and 'image-based interpretations systems'