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An Egyptologist is any archaeologist, historian, linguist, or art historian who specializes in Egyptology, the scientific study of Ancient Egypt and its antiquities. Demotists are Egyptologists who specialize in the study of the Demotic language and field of Demotic Studies. A practitioner of the disciplined study of Ancient Egypt and Egyptian antiquities is an "Egyptologist", the field of egyptology is not exclusive to such pactitioners.
[edit] Important Egyptologists
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[edit] Deceased
- Cyril Aldred (1894-1991)
- Charles Allberry (1911-1943), British
- Tadeusz Andrzejewski (1923-1961), Polish
- Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778-1823), Italian
- Alberto Bianchi (1920-2003), Uruguayan
- Joseph Bonomi (1796-1878), British
- Ludwig Borchardt (1863-1938), German
- James Henry Breasted (1865-1935), American
- E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934), British
- Howard Carter (1873-1939), British
- Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832), French
- I.E.S. Edwards (1909-1996), British
- W. B. Emery (1903-1971), British
- Sir William Flinders Petrie (1853-1942), British
- Henri Frankfort (1897-1954), Dutch
- Raymond O. Faulkner (1894-1982), British
- Sir Alan Gardiner (1879-1963), British
- Vladimir Semyonovich Golenishchev (1856-1947), Russian
- Edward William Lane (1801-1876), British
- Karl Richard Lepsius (1810-1884), Prussian
- Victor Loret (1859-1946), French
- Auguste Mariette (1821-1881), French
- Gaston Maspero (1846-1916), French
- Kazimierz Michałowski (1901-1981), Polish
- Pierre Montet (1885-1966), French
- Margaret Alice Murray (1863-1963), British
- Édouard Naville (1844-1926), Swiss
- Richard Anthony Parker (1905-1993), American
- Alexandre Piankoff (1897-1966), Russian
- Hans Jacob Polotsky (1905-1991), Swiss
- Henry Salt (1780-1827), British
- Ernesto Schiaparelli (1856-1928), Italian
- Boris Aleksandrovich Turayev (1868-1920), Russian
- John Gardiner Wilkinson (1797-1875), British
- Herbert E. Winlock (1884-1950), American
- Gilula Mordechai (1936-2002),Isreali
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