[ noun ] archeology of ancient Egyptian artifacts <noun.cognition>
Egyptology \E`gyp*tol"o*gy\, n. [Egypt + -logy.] The science or study of Egyptian antiquities, esp. the hieroglyphics.
"We can all pull together over Egyptology," says Vivian Berryhill, chairman of the show's visitors' information center.
The find is "a big gain for Egyptology" and "will allow us to know more, possibly a great deal more, about the 6th Dynasty" that ruled the Nile Valley from 2420 to 2258 B.C., Montlucon said.
It was paid for an Art Deco clock modelled on an Egyptian gate clock made by Cartier in 1927 and inspired by the revival in Egyptology following the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922.
Egyptology was born on the crest of a great wave of racism and anti-Semitism that swept Anglo and Germanic Europe in the early 19th century.