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Egyptologist

noun
1.
An archeologist who specializes in Egyptology.






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"Egyptologist" Quotes from Famous Books



... as guide by special arrangement. A local celebrity accompanied him; he stood for the faith of Ophir, and smote the Egyptologist adversary not once nor twice alone. He confessed to the ladies of the party his conviction that the theory of an African origin was too inconceivably squalid. He stood for the gorgeous East, he said, as against Kaffirdom. He ...
— Cinderella in the South - Twenty-Five South African Tales • Arthur Shearly Cripps

... out from the boy's mother where she or her people were from; get a stenographer at Winchester to come out and make careful notes of his murmurings; and when made send a copy to him and one to——, a lawyer at Covington, who was an antiquarian and an Egyptologist. ...
— Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight • Mathew Joseph Holt

... whatever more they were. It may be that the animal worship of the later and weaker Egyptian periods was a revival, such as takes place in weak periods, of a style of worship which in earlier centuries had to a large extent disappeared in favour of a more spiritual faith.[2] Of this only an Egyptologist can judge, but at any rate animal worship was not a new thing in Egypt, but ...
— History of Religion - A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems • Allan Menzies

... I am informed by a renowned and learned Egyptologist, to whom I have submitted this very interesting and beautifully finished scarab, "Suten se Ra," that he has never seen one resembling it. Although it bears a title frequently given to Egyptian royalty, he is of opinion that it is not necessarily the cartouche of a ...
— She • H. Rider Haggard



Words linked to "Egyptologist" :   Egyptology, archaeologist, Jean Francois Champollion, archeologist, Howard Carter, carter, young, Thomas Young, Champollion



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