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EGYPTOLOGIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An archeologist who specializes in Egyptology
Classified under:
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)
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