ABSTRACT
British tourists, officials, Egyptologists, missionaries and clergymen all played a role in revealing Egypt's past and present to western eyes. Egyptians were seen as in need of a civilizing influence, of education and improvement. In the introduction to a widely read work about the history of Christianity in Egypt, its author, Edith Butcher, straightaway emphasized that 'there are many now who have discovered that the true descendants of the ancient Egyptians are Christians, not Mohammedans'. This pamphlet was intended to provide information on Egypt and the Sudan, as well as to describe the work of the Anglican missionaries in these areas. People long resident in Egypt can usually distinguish the Copts from the Moslems by their countenance, and some will even trace in their features the outlines long familiar in Egyptian monuments. The Copts were not merely divided from other Egyptians by religion, but also by race'.
