| 1.1 | The Rosetta Stone |
| 1.2 | Set for the opera, The Magic Flute |
| 1.3 | Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778–1823) |
| 1.4 | British archaeologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) |
| 1.5 | Quickbird and WorldView-1 satellite image of Tanis, Egypt |
| 1.6 | Wheeler excavation squares at a site |
| 1.7 | Tell el-Balamun, magnetic map of the temple enclosure |
| 1.8 | Vivien Leigh as Cleopatra (VII) with Claude Rains as Julius Caesar, in the 1945 film of the George Bernard Shaw play Caesar and Cleopatra |
| 2.1 | Stages of the Egyptian language |
| 2.2 | Fragmentary papyrus in hieratic about the Battle of Qadesh, fought by Rameses II in the 19th Dynasty |
| 2.3 | Limestone ostracon, with Coptic inscriptions on both sides |
| 2.4 | Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832) |
| 2.5 | Sety I’s king list from his Abydos temple |
| 3.1 | Wooden model of a bakery/brewery, from the 12th-Dynasty tomb of Meketra, Deir el-Bahri |
| 3.2 | Fishing scene (from a papyrus boat), from the 6th-Dynasty tomb of Mereruka, Saqqara |
| 4.1 | Handax |
| 4.2 | Steps in the making of a Levallois flake |
| 4.3 | Middle Paleolithic flake tools |
| 4.4 | Late Predynastic ripple-flaked knife produced by pressure flaking |
| 4.5 | Figures of wild cattle at the Late Paleolothic rock art site of Qurta I, locality 1 |
| 4.6 | Late Neolithic stone alignment at Nabta Playa |
| 5.1 | Subterranean house structure at Ma’adi |
| 5.2 | Sequence Dating chart showing Petrie’s Predynastic pottery classes |
| 5.3 | Plan of the Naqada cemeteries excavated by Petrie |
| 5.4 | Wall scene from Tomb 100, Hierakonpolis |
| 5.5 | Egypt: Predynastic (Naqada culture) burial from Naga el-Deir |
| 5.6 | Narmer Palette, reverse and obverse |
| 5.7 | Tags from Tomb U-j, Abydos |
| 5.8 | Plan of the Early Dynastic Royal Cemetery at Abydos |
| 5.9 | 1st-Dynasty limestone stela of King Djet from his tomb at Abydos |
| 5.10 | Plan of the three funerary enclosures from Aḥa’s reign, Abydos |
| 5.11 | Section of the 1st-Dynasty Tomb 3357 at North Saqqara |
| 5.12 | Carved disk from Hemaka’s tomb, North Saqqara |
| 5.13 | Location of the “Main Deposit,” Hierakonpolis |
| 6.1 | Cartouche of Khufu |
| 6.2 | Djoser’s Step Pyramid complex, Saqqara |
| 6.3 | Relief of Djoser running the sed-festival race, from the so-called “South Tomb” at his Step Pyramid complex, Saqqara |
| 6.4 | Aerial photo of the Step Pyramid complex and three unfinished rectangular pyramid complexes at Saqqara |
| 6.5 | Cross-section plan of Sneferu’s Maidum pyramid |
| 6.6 | Plan of Khufu’s Great Pyramid at Giza |
| 6.7 | Disassembled boat, investigated in 1987 and still in a boat pit next to Khufu’s Great Pyramid, Giza |
| 6.8 | Khafra statue from the valley temple of his pyramid complex at Giza |
| 6.9 | Plan of Shepseskaf’s tomb at Zawiyet el-Aryan |
| 6.10 | Plan of the funerary cult town of Queen Khentkawes, Giza |
| 6.11 | 4th-Dynasty pyramid town at Giza |
| 6.12 | “Reserve head” from a mastaba tomb to the west of Khufu’s Giza pyramid |
| 6.13 | Restored furniture found in the Giza tomb or ritual deposit of Queen Hetepheres I |
| 6.14 | Plan of Nyussera’s sun temple complex at Abu Ghurob |
| 6.15 | Plan of Pepy II’s pyramid complex at Saqqara |
| 6.16 | Painted relief with scenes of boat construction from the 5th-Dynasty tomb of Ti, Saqqara |
| 6.17 | Relief scene of hunting in the desert, from the 6th-Dynasty tomb of Mereruka, Saqqara |
| 6.18 | Funerary stela of a priestess of Hathor, Setnet-Inheret, from Naga el-Deir |
| 7.1 | Plan of Mentuhotep II’s tomb complex at Deir el-Bahri |
| 7.2 | View into the small chamber of Meketra’s 12th-Dynasty tomb at Deir el-Bahri |
| 7.3 | Plans of the Montu temple at Medamud, dating from the Old Kingdom to the Greco-Roman Period |
| 7.4 | Plan of the rock-cut tomb of Senusret III at Abydos |
| 7.5 | Plan of Senusret I’s pyramid at Lisht |
| 7.6 | Planks excavated at the Lisht pyramid of Senusret I, reconstructed into a cross-section of a freight boat |
| 7.7 | Plan of Amenemhat III’s pyramid at Dahshur |
| 7.8 | Plan of the pyramid town of Kahun |
| 7.9 | Descriptive scheme of images painted on a birth brick from South Abydos, Building A |
| 7.10 | Scene of moving a large statue from the tomb of Djehuty-hotep, Deir el-Bersha |
| 7.11 | Reconstruction of the 12th-Dynasty fort of Buhen |
| 7.12 | Plan of the site of Tell el-Dab’a, dating to the 12th–13th Dynasties and later the 15th-Dynasty Hyksos capital of Avaris |
| 7.13 | Plan of the royal tomb K X and the funerary temple K XI excavated by George Reisner at Kerma |
| 7.14 | 12th-Dynasty statue of Lady Sennuwy found in a royal burial (K III) at Kerma |
| 7.15 | Plan of the central city of Kerma |
| 7.16 | View of the Western Deffufa temple at Kerma |
| 7.17 | Pan-Grave excavated at Abydos |
| 8.1 | The Colossi of Memnon |
| 8.2 | Plan of Hatshepsut’s mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri |
| 8.3 | Plan of Amenhotep III’s Malkata palace complex |
| 8.4 | Plan of the city of Akhetaten (the site of Tell el-Amarna) |
| 8.5 | Plan of the central city of Akhetaten |
| 8.6 | Fragmented relief of Akhenaten with Nefertiti on his lap holding two princesses |
| 8.7 | Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon in Tutankhamen’s tomb |
| 8.8 | View of the antechamber of Tutankhamen’s tomb, taken in 1922 |
| 8.9 | Plan of Tutankhamen’s tomb (KV 62), overlain by part of the tomb of Rameses VI (KV 9) |
| 8.10 | Plan of Tutankhamen’s burial chamber, with four shrines, sarcophagus, and coffins |
| 8.11 | Abydos, plan of the Temple of Sety I/Rameses II |
| 8.12 | Plan of the Temple of Luxor |
| 8.13 | Plan of the Temple of Karnak |
| 8.14 | Map/location of the (royal) mortuary temples of western Thebes |
| 8.15 | The Ramesseum with fallen colossus of Rameses II |
| 8.16 | Plan of the temple complex at Medinet Habu |
| 8.17 | Theban Mapping Project plans of tombs in Valley of the Kings |
| 8.18 | Detail of a painting in the 18th-Dynasty Theban tomb of Rekhmira (TT 100) at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna |
| 8.19 | Relief of a banquet scene from the 18th-Dynasty tomb of Ramose |
| 8.20 | Plan of several New Kingdom tombs at Saqqara, including those of Horemheb and Maya |
| 8.21 | Plan of the village of Deir el-Medina |
| 8.22 | Plan of Rameses II’s rock-cut temple at Abu Simbel in Lower Nubia |
| 9.1 | Taharqo head with a cap crown |
| 9.2 | Plan of the temples and royal tombs at Tanis |
| 9.3 | Plan of the royal necropolis at Tanis |
| 9.4 | View of temples at the base of Gebel Barkal |
| 9.5 | Plan of the royal cemetery at el-Kurru |
| 9.6 | Plan and cross-section of the pyramid of Taharqo at Nuri |
| 9.7 | Plan of the Serapeum at Saqqara |
| 9.8 | Granite sarcophagus of a sacred Apis bull, buried in the underground gallery of the Serapeum at Saqqara |
| 9.9 | View of the gallery with mummified falcons, Saqqara |
| 9.10 | Plan of the Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara |
| 9.11 | Plan of the tomb of Harwa at el-Asasif |
| 9.12 | Plan of the 26th-Dynasty tomb of Iufaa at Saqqara |
| 10.1 | Plan of the city of Alexandria |
| 10.2 | Plan of the Greco-Roman temple of Hathor at Dendera |
| 10.3 | The Ptolemaic zodiac relief from the ceiling of a small chapel in the Temple of Hathor, Dendera |
| 10.4 | View inside a 2nd-century elite house showing the collapsed roof, at the Dakhla Oasis site of Ismant el-Kharab (ancient Kellis) |
| 10.5 | Plan of the fort at Abu Sha’ar as it appeared following the 1993 excavations |
| 10.6 | Meroe, plan of the city and cemeteries |
| 10.7 | Meroitic offering table in sandstone of Qenabelile |
| 10.8 | Reconstruction of several Meroe pyramids |
| 10.9 | Plan of the Meroitic town at Domat el-Hamadab |