egyptologist

plural egyptologists

1. uncommonAlternative letter-case form of Egyptologist.

   In 1924, Howard Carter, British egyptologist, found the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor.

   1998 January 3, “On this day”, in CNN International

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   The famous egyptologist, Prof. G. Maspero, is now having the third work of his Egyptian trilogy translated from the French by M. L. McClure

   1899 December 23, “Review 6”, in New York Times

   A. Rita Freed, an egyptologist at Memphis State University in Tennessee and the person who put the extra "es" in Ramesses for the Boston exhibition,

   1988 May 9, “ASK THE GLOBE”, in Boston Globe

   .. beautiful in the ancient burial ground of the Valley of the Queens and has been closed since its discovery by Italian egyptologist Ernesto Schiaparelli.

   1995 November 5, “PHARONIC TOMB OPEN”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

   The egyptologists believe that she is one of three mummies discovered in a secret chamber of a tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings in Luxor.

   2003 June 11, “Nefertiti's mummy 'found in Egypt'”, in BBC News

   According to Italian egyptologist Professor Sergio Donadoni the theories that have long surrounded Tutankhamen's death have always been produced by "picturesque legends without any scientific basis".

   2005 September 3, “Tutankhamen murder mystery solved”, in ABC Online

plural Egyptologists · alternative Ægyptologist · alternative egyptologist

1. A person; one who is skilled in or professes or practices Egyptology.

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   An Egyptologist's mind immediately turns to the ancient Egyptian counterpart to such an imagined protosactuary: a reed hut that all late Egyptian temples, in their archaizing longing to return to the origins, sought to emulate in stone through the typically Egyptian temple features of inward-sloping walls, torus and corvetto cornice.

   2018, Jan Assmann, The Invention of Religion