The contribution presents a history of the Egyptological discussions of ‘narrative’ in different media. It does so by classifying relevant contributions according to their explicit use of narratological theory and methods as pre-narratological (section 1 and 2) or following classical (section 2), or postclassical (sections 3 and 4) approaches in narratology. It is argued for a design of Egyptological narratology as historical narratology (section 4) in order to offer appropriate possibilities to understand the narrative difference (section 5) of Egyptian objects which nevertheless remains defined in a clear-cut framework of narratological concepts and methods.