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.

• EGYPTOLOGIST (noun)

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)