ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSAs ever, I am indebted to Tom Hardwick not only for his invaluable advice on a draft of the manuscript, but also for many years of friendship, conversation and good cheer, over all matters Egypt-related. Master’s-degree students in my ‘Unwrapping Ancient Egypt’ seminars at the University of East Anglia have contributed many ideas and inspiration relevant to this book; if only all teaching could include visits to the Freud Museum, followed by cake and coffee at the Louis Hungarian Patisserie in Hampstead. At Reaktion Books, I am grateful to Ben Hayes and Amy Salter for seeing the book through to completion with such helpful encouragement and patience.