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Egyptology (from Egypt and Greek-λογία, -logia; Arabic: علم المصريات) is the scientific study of ancient Egypt. The topics studied include ancient Egyptian history , language , literature , religion , architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious practices in the 4th century AD.
The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt (2003) Egyptology Today (2008) Egyptian Scarabs (2008) The Temple of Tausret (2011) Tausret: Forgotten Queen and Pharaoh of Egypt (2012) The Oxford Handbook of the Valley of the Kings With Kent R. Weeks (2015) Pharaoh’s Land and Beyond: Ancient Egyptian Interconnections With Pearce Paul ...
The history of Egypt has been long and wealthy, due to the flow of the Nile River with its fertile banks and delta, as well as the accomplishments of Egypt's native inhabitants and outside influence. Much of Egypt's ancient history was unknown until Egyptian hieroglyphs were deciphered with the discovery and deciphering of the Rosetta Stone .
One of the initial goals of the International Association of Egyptologists (IAE) at its foundation in 1947 was to produce overviews of literature relevant to Egyptology, to aid Egyptological research. Jozef M.A. Janssen, a Dutch Egyptologist at Leiden University, was asked to publish a yearly list of titles with abstracts. The first volume ...
Robert Brier (/ ˈ b r aɪ. ər /; born December 13, 1943) is an American Egyptologist specializing in paleopathology.A senior research fellow at Long Island University/LIU Post, he has researched and published on mummies and the mummification process and has appeared in many Discovery Civilization, TLC Network, and National Geographic documentaries, primarily on ancient Egypt.
The Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass called this ancient papyrus "the greatest discovery in Egypt in the 21st century". [31] [32] [33] In March 2017, the Egyptian-German team of archaeologists unearthed an eight-meter 3,000-year-old statue that included a head and a torso thought to depict Pharaoh Ramses II.
William Joseph Murnane (March 22, 1945 – November 17, 2000) was an American Egyptologist and author of a number of books and monographs on Ancient Egypt. He was director of the Great Hypostyle Hall Project at Luxor Karnak Temple , was a research associate and held a Dunavant Professorship in the History Department of the Institute of Egyptian ...
The Egyptian Book of the Dead. Granta Books. ISBN 978-1-86207-913-7. Barry Kemp (2005). Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilisation (2nd ed.). Routledge. ISBN 0-415-23550-2. Barry Kemp (2005). 100 Hieroglyphs: Think Like an Egyptian. Granta Books. ISBN 1-86207-658-8. Barry Kemp (2000). Bricks and metaphor. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 10, 335 ...