In the wake of the growing interest in the history of Egyptology as a research discipline in its own right, a substantial grant was recently awarded to a consortium of five Belgian institutions to take the first steps towards the study of the development of Egyptology in Belgium.Belgian expansionism and the making of Egyptology, 1830. As the project 'Pyramids & Progress. Belgian expansionism and the making of Egyptology, 1830 1952' (abbreviated as P&P) has only just been launched, this contribution merely aims to present its framework and objectives, rather than any results. Central to the project is the premise that Belgian Egyptology did not develop in a vacuum, but was strongly tied to the specific socio-economic and political relations between Belgium and Egypt during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For this reason, the project takes an interdisciplinary approach and draws heavily on thus-far un-published archival material. The long list of authors on this paper intentionally reflects the multifaceted approach to a topic that no single specialist can master. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/published