The expedition of Bonaparte in 1798 and the magnificent Description de l'Égypte aroused in Europe a craze for the monuments and the art of this ancient civilisation.

[6] The book has been translated into Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Danish, Dutch (Belgium & the Netherlands), English (UK & US), German, Italian, Japanese, Lebanese Arabic, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, South Korean, Spanish (Spain & Hispanic America), Swedish, Turkish, traditional (Taiwan) and simplified Chinese (China), and reprinted several times.

Besides these big names, there are texts by modern Egyptologists such as Claude Traunecker, Vercoutter himself on the rescue of Abu Simbel temples and Jean-Claude Golvin (about the restoration works at Karnak), among others.

The document Les mystères des pyramides also includes references to comic books where Egypt is the theme (Asterix, Tintin and Blake and Mortimer).

3) of the Oriental Institute of the University of Lisbon, the Portuguese Egyptologist Luís Manuel de Araújo [pt] praised the selection of illustrations for the book: "A well-designed book, with excellent text and a wealth of beautiful illustrations [...] This beautiful volume is valued by the excellent selection of images that lavishly accompanies the text, some of the illustrations belong to classic works from the early days of Egyptology, such as the Description de l'Égypte, Lepsius's Denkmäler aus Ägypten und Äthiopien, David Roberts's Egypt and Nubia, among others."

De Araújo also notes the erroneous spelling for the divine name by using Khourou instead of Khonsou (in English: Khonsu) when mentioning the temple of this lunar deity at Karnak (p. 210); the name of the pharaoh of the 12th dynasty—Amenemhat I—is wrongly written Amenhemat (p. 214); the name of Horus Kaa—last king of the First Dynasty—reduced to Ka (p. 214), due to failure of revision; and a reference to Seti I in a caption while the pharaoh represented in the illustration is Ramesses II (p. 92, corrected in English edition); as well as the inexplicable absence of the famous English Egyptologist Flinders Petrie, who introduced new methods of prospecting and registering the findings in archaeological research; and his contemporaries Adolf Erman and George Andrew Reisner also being omitted.

[...] In any case, Vercoutter's book also contains material that is not widely distributed, such as the marvellous watercolours by Nestor L'Hôte, who accompanied Champollion on his trip to Egypt.

"[14] The Russian Egyptologist Victor Solkin wrote in his review: "The book is laconic, replete with interesting facts and wonderful illustrations, sometimes very rare images.

[...] In general, we have before us a miniature guide to the history of Egyptian archaeology, which will present the whole panorama of the cultural interaction between the country of the pyramids and Europe to the reader who is not familiar with Egypt.