These nine papers derive from a conference held at Birmingham University in 2001, the aim of which was to promote discussion among graduate students from across the UK. Subjects include: the Napoleonic corpus Description de l'Egypte ; the arrival of the horse in Egypt; artistic evidence for the Hyskos' role in Egyptian society; the social organisation of New Kingdom dockyards; the uses and occurrences of `Egyptian blue', the first synthetic pigment of antiquity; Egyptian mathematics and science; the depiction of mythological landscapes in the Valley of the Kings; mortuary behaviour in Predynastic Egypt; representations of Hathor and Mut in the Hibis Temple.