egyptologist
Noun
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An archeologist who specializes in Egyptology (synset 110067630)
is a type of: archaeologist, archeologist - an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culturespecific instances:
- 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)
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