An
Egyptologist is any
archaeologist,
historian,
linguist, or
art historian who specializes in
Egyptology, the scientific study of
Ancient Egypt and its
antiquities.
Demotists are Egyptologists who specialize in the study of the
Demotic language and field of Demotic Studies. A practitioner of the disciplined study of
Ancient Egypt and
Egyptian antiquities is an "Egyptologist", the field of Egyptology is not exclusive to such practitioners.
Important Egyptologists
Living
Deceased
- Abdul Latif al-Baghdadi (d. 1231), Iraqi
- Cyril Aldred (1894-1991), British
- Charles Allberry (1911-1943), British
- Dhul-Nun al-Misri (d. 861), Egyptian
- Tadeusz Andrzejewski (1923-1961), Polish
- Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778-1823), Italian
- Alberto Bianchi (1920-2003), Uruguayan
- Joseph Bonomi (1796-1878), British
- Ludwig Borchardt (1863-1938), German
- James Henry Breasted (1865-1935), American
- E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934), British
- Howard Carter (1873-1939), British
- Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832), French
- I.E.S. Edwards (1909-1996), British
- W. B. Emery (1903-1971), British
- Sir William Flinders Petrie (1853-1942), British
- Henri Frankfort (1897-1954), Dutch
- Raymond O. Faulkner (1894-1982), British
- Sir Alan Gardiner (1879-1963), British
- Mordechai Gilula (1936-2002), Israeli
- Vladimir Semyonovich Golenishchev (1856-1947), Russian
- Edward William Lane (1801-1876), British
- Karl Richard Lepsius (1810-1884), Prussian
- Victor Loret (1859-1946), French
- Auguste Mariette (1821-1881), French
- Gaston Maspero (1846-1916), French
- Kazimierz Michałowski (1901-1981), Polish
- Pierre Montet (1885-1966), French
- Margaret Alice Murray (1863-1963), British
- Édouard Naville (1844-1926), Swiss
- Richard Anthony Parker (1905-1993), American
- Alexandre Piankoff (1897-1966), Russian
- Hans Jacob Polotsky (1905-1991), Swiss
- Henry Salt (1780-1827), British
- Ernesto Schiaparelli (1856-1928), Italian
- René A. Schwaller de Lubicz (1887 – 1961), French
- Boris Aleksandrovich Turayev (1868-1920), Russian
- Ibn Wahshiyya (9th-10th century), Iraqi
- John Gardiner Wilkinson (1797-1875), British
- Herbert E. Winlock (1884-1950), American
- Selim Hassan (1886-1961), Egyptian
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historian is an individual who studies history and who writes on history.[1] The person may be an authority (or expert) over history,<ref name="wordnetprinceton" /> but this is not a requirement.
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Linguistics is the scientific study of language, which can be theoretical or applied. Someone who engages in this study is called a
linguist.
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Egyptology is the study of Ancient Egypt and Egyptian antiquities and is a regional and thematic branch of the larger disciplines of ancient history and archaeology. A practitioner of the discipline is an Egyptologist, though Egyptology is not exclusive to such practitioners.
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Antiquities, nearly always used in the plural in this sense, is a term for objects from Antiquity, especially the civilizations of the Mediterranean: the Classical antiquity of Greece and Rome, Ancient Egypt and the other Ancient Near Eastern cultures.
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The history of Egypt is the longest continuous history, as a unified state, of any country in the world. The Nile valley forms a natural geographic and economic unit, bounded to the east and west by deserts, to the north by the sea and to the south by the Cataracts of the
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Bassam El Shammaa (born 16 August 1962 in Alexandria, Egypt) is an author and lecturer on Egyptian history. He is the developer of the "Second Sphinx" theory.
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James Peter Allen is a prolific Egyptologist, specializing in language and religion born in 1945. In 2007, he became the Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University.
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Jan Assmann (b. July 7, 1938) is a German Egyptologist who was born in Langelsheim.
Education and teaching
He went to school in Lübeck and Heidelberg before going on to study Egyptology, Classical Archeology and Greek Studies in Munich, Heidelberg, Paris and Göttingen.
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Jürgen von Beckerath (born 19 February 1920) is a prominent German Egyptologist. He is a prolific writer who has published countless articles in journals such as Orientalia, Göttinger Miszellen (GM), Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt
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Manfred Bietak (b. 6. October 1940, Vienna) is an Austrian archaeologist. He is the current Professor of Egyptology at the University of Vienna and Director of the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Cairo
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Peter James Brand (born 5 April 1967) is a Canadian Egyptologist from Toronto, Ontario. He is also a naturalized American citizen. He completed his PhD in 1998 at the University of Toronto with his dissertation
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Robert Brier, Ph.D (born December 13, 1943), also affectionately known as Mr. Mummy, is a world-renowned American Egyptologist specializing in paleopathology. A Senior Research Fellow at the C.W.
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Betsy Morrell Bryan is an American Egyptologist who is leading a team that is excavating the Precinct of Mut complex in Karnak, at Luxor in Upper Egypt.
She is Alexander Badawy Professor of Egyptian Art and Archaeology[1]
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Dr. Joann Fletcher is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York and Consultant Egyptologist for Harrogate Museums and Arts. She has undertaken excavation work in Egypt, Yemen, and the UK, and has examined mummies both on-site and in
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Michael Gerald Hasel is an American archaeologist and Egyptologist. He completed his PhD in 1996 at the University of Arizona under William G. Dever and Richard H. Wilkinson.
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Zahi Hawass (Arabic: زاهي حواس transliteration: Zāhī Ḥawwās
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Christian Jacq (born 1947) is a French author and Egyptologist. He has written several novels about ancient Egypt, notably a five book suite about pharaoh Ramses II, a character whom Jacq admires greatly.
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Naguib Kanawati AM , MA , PhD , is an Australian Egyptologist and Professor of Egyptology at Macquarie University in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Career
A native of Alexandria, Egypt, with a Master's degree in business administration from Alexandria University,
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Jacques Kinnaer is a Belgian egyptologist with an M.A. from the University of Leuven (1988).
Writings by Kinnaer
- Le Mekes et l'Imit-Per dans les scènes des temples Ptolémaiques et Romains, in OLP 22 (1991), pp.
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Jean Leclant (born August 8, 1920 in Paris, France) is a renowned Egyptologist who is an Honorary Professor at the College of France and Permanent Secretary of the Academy of Inscriptions and Letters of the Institut de France.
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Dr. Mark Lehner is an American archaeologist with over thirty years' experience excavating in Egypt. His approach, as director of Ancient Egypt Research Associates, is to conduct interdisciplinary archaeological investigation.
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