Religio Duplex: How the Enlightenment Reinvented Egyptian Religion ,

Ancient Egypt and its environs drew European scholarly interest before the decipherment of hieroglyphics. Some of that interest revolved around alleged Egyptian insights into esoteric religions, while other concerns have survived better in scientific approaches to the past. However, as these books indicate, the boundaries between the esoteric and the scientific are much more fluid than often thought. The study of that early modern research on Egypt reveals both the continuities and discontinuities between different stages of scholarship and thus the historicity of historiography itself.