Globalization, the decline of Western hegemony, and the rise of new political and economic actors, particularly in East Asia, are concomitant with the emergence of more encompassing historical perspectives, attentive to the achievements and historical trajectories of other regions of the world. Global history provides thus a new framework to understanding our past that challenges former views based on the cultural needs, values, and expectations of the West. This means that humanities and social sciences are subject to intense scrutiny and pressed to adapt themselves to a changing cultural, academic, and intellectual environment. However, this process is hindered by the gradual loss of their former prestige and by the increasing influence of economics in the reorganization of the educational, research, and cultural agenda according to market-oriented criteria. The result is that the mobilization of the past increasingly conforms to new strategies in which connectivity, trading, and diplomatic interests, as well as integration in dynamic flows of wealth, appear of paramount importance. Egyptology is not alien to these challenges, which will in all probability reshape its very foundations in the foreseeable future.

全球化，西方霸权的衰落以及新的政治和经济参与者，特别是在东亚的崛起，都伴随着更加包容各方的历史观点的出现，这些观点关注世界其他地区的成就和历史轨迹。因此，全球历史为理解我们的过去提供了一个新的框架，它根据西方的文化需求，价值观和期望挑战了以前的观点。这意味着人文和社会科学受到严格审查，并迫切需要适应不断变化的文化，学术和知识环境。但是，这一过程因其原有声望的逐渐丧失以及经济学在教育，研究，和文化议程，以市场为导向。结果是，过去的动员越来越符合新的战略，在这种新战略中，连通性，贸易和外交利益以及对财富的动态流动的整合显得至关重要。埃及学对这些挑战并不陌生，在可预见的未来，埃及学很可能会重塑其基础。