Through a glass darkly: Magic, dreams and prophecy in ancient Egypt

REVIEW BY ANNA GARNETT Following a publishing trend of making classic and out-of-print texts available to a wide general audience, this latest reprint was first published in 2006 but is now available in paperback for the first time. There are a number of historic Egyptological gatherings that are known to have broken significant new ground, and for which you ‘just had to be there’. The 2003 international conference in rural Wales on the subject of dreams, magic, and prophecy in ancient Egypt was arguably one of these unmissable Egyptological events. Thankfully for those of us who did not attend, this rich volume of papers by speakers at the event brings together the thoughts of a d