[ noun ] an archeologist who specializes in Egyptology <noun.person>
Egyptologer \E`gyp*tol"o*ger\, Egyptologist \E`gyp*tol"o*gist\, n. One skilled in the antiquities of Egypt; a student of Egyptology.
Twenty years later Jean-Francois Champollion, the world's first Egyptologist, solved the puzzle of ancient heiroglyphic writing through texts from the Rosetta Stone, a basalt tablet now housed in the British Museum in London.
And in 1985 it added a second Egyptologist.
Source of the story was the previously unknown Egyptologist Batson D. Sealing. 3.
The switch may not be as surprising as it sounds when you remember that Rider Haggard was an Egyptologist in his spare time. The last-but-one Barbara Vine is also at the airport - Asta's Book (Penguin Pounds 4.99).
The answer is quickened decay, and the reason is sewage, said Zahi Hawass, an Egyptologist and director general of the pyramids area where the Sphinx has crouched since the Old Kingdom.
Los Angeles-based British Egyptologist Helen Strudwick, who studied the piece for Getty, found significance in the ritual inscription "true of voice," a phrase ancient Egyptians normally used after the name of the person who died.
It and three similar boats were buried near the pyramid complex of Senwosret III so he could use them in the afterlife, says Diana Craig Patch, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History Egyptologist.