Each chapter of this book represents one lecture from a series delivered in 2012 at All Souls College, Oxford …With 79 pages of notes and bibliography, the extensive research behind this book is well documented … The issues discussed go beyond the art historical. Riggs covers the psychology of entombing, hiding, and revealing in artistic, religious, and political contexts. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty; general readers.

N. J. Mactague, Aurora University, CHOICE

This is a work of passion, poetically written and convincingly argued, which highlights the crucial role played by textiles, wrapping and concealment in the structuring of ancient Egyptian society.

Sarah Griffiths, Ancient Egypt

An original and powerful volume ... Riggs provides a (very) critical history of Egyptology and related curatorial practices. The result is a book that not only wears its erudition lightly, but also challenges the legitimacy and apparent exceptionality of what it is that Egyptologists do. Opening Egyptology's “black box,” Riggs makes a major contribution to understanding what that box might contain, in addition to how this understanding might change our perceptions of “ancient Egypt” and scholarly practices related to it.

William Carruthers, Museum Anthropology Review

Dr Riggs' book contains much of interest, presented in an ingenious way that raises issues that might not otherwise have easily sprung to mind and which should indeed be considered by anyone dealing with the study of the ancient world.

Aidan Dodson, ASTENE Bulletin 63

Riggs is, undeniably, spot-on with many of her observations. She is deliberately provocative and hopefully this book – an affordable paperback that [could] reach a wide audience – will not simply be dismissed as 'trendy' by the Establishment she critiques ... it should please the author that the book – perhaps the single most important on the subject of 'Egyptology' as a discipline of the last ten years – is already on the set reading list of archaeology students at Manchester University.

Campbell Price, Egyptian Archaeology

Unwrapping Ancient Egypt is a riveting review and critique of Egyptological scholarship, studying a time-honored subject against a critical analysis of traditional western scientific approaches. Christina Riggs' masterful intertwining of critical theory and thorough analysis provides important new insights.

Willeke Wendrich, Professor of Egyptian Archeology, UCLA, USA