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EGYPTOLOGIST
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• EGYPTOLOGIST (noun)
The noun EGYPTOLOGIST has 1 sense:
1. an archeologist who specializes in Egyptology
Familiarity information: EGYPTOLOGIST used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
An archeologist who specializes in Egyptology
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Egyptologist" is a kind of...):
archaeologist; archeologist (an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture)
Instance hyponyms:
Carter; Howard Carter (Englishman and Egyptologist who in 1922 discovered and excavated the tomb of Tutankhamen (1873-1939))
Champollion; Jean Francois Champollion (Frenchman and Egyptologist who studied the Rosetta Stone and in 1821 became the first person to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics (1790-1832))
Thomas Young; Young (British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829))
Derivation:
Egyptology (archeology of ancient Egyptian artifacts)
Context examples
Millions of mummified ibis birds have been found in Egyptian tombs and catacombs in Saqqara and Tuna el-Gebel, and Egyptologists have reported they were sacrificed to the god Thoth, who is often depicted with the head of an ibis, the way Horus is shown with the head of a falcon and Bast with the head of a cat.
(Ancient Egyptians collected wild ibis birds for sacrifice, says study, Wikinews)
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