Introduction

Ah, Egyptology. For historical and aesthetic reasons, it's one of the most glamorous, romanticized, and commonly misunderstood fields in the humanities. Ancient Egypt has long been a fixture in Western pop culture. And when Egyptology and pop culture collide, as they so often do, the results are often hilarious. Sometimes this hilarity is intentional (see Bubba Ho-Tep). Other times . . . not so much.

This blog is about Bad Egyptology in popular culture: hilarious or just plain painful misconceptions and misrepresentations of Ancient Egypt and the practice of Egyptology in popular film, art, and literature. I won't be talking about bad scholarly Egyptology here. Sure, it happens, but that's not what this blog is about. So sit back and enjoy . . . this should be fun.