The collections of the Louvre's Department of Egyptian Antiquities abound in objects that were found during the many 19th- and early 20th-century excavations carried out under the guidance of French scientists, encouraged by Bonaparte's Egyptian expedition of 1798.

This book, illustrated with archive photographs of the first excavations and of items now on display in the Louvre, proposes eleven archaeological trails corresponding to eleven sites throughout Egypt (Abu Rawash, Antinoe, Aswan, Bawit, Deir el-Medina, Edfu, Karnak, Medamud, Saqqara, Tanis, Tod).