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Baratti

Boris de Rachewiltz (redirect from Boris Baratti), Italian Egyptologist

Baron Empain

In 1907 he received the title of Baron, and also suggested to Belgian Egyptologist Jean Capart that he excavate at Heliopolis, where his building constructions were underway.

Book of Abraham

Latter-day Saint Egyptologist John Gee, however, believes that eyewitness descriptions during Joseph Smith's lifetime described a complete document, free of lacunae.

Carnarvon, Northern Cape

The name was changed in 1874 in honour of the British Colonial Secretary, Lord Carnarvon (1831–1890), whose son, also Lord Carnarvon, was the famous Egyptologist.

Coats of arms, badges and emblems of Spanish Armed Forces

This is likely Princess Beatrice, Egyptologist and drawer, would have based on the Egyptian scarab, the winged disc of the Burial site of Seti I or Maat's wings.

Cosmoline

Notable Egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass recently disclosed that ancient Egyptian mummification practices from the third to fifth dynasties utilized a chemical compound molecularly similar to cosmoline.

Dwr-y-Felin Comprehensive School

T. G. H. James CBE – Egyptologist, Editor from 1960-70 of the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology

Édouard Naville

In 1903-06 he returned to Deir el Bahri to excavate the temple of Mentuhotep II, assisted by Henry Hall.

Egyptian Television Network

The big building that takes its name after the French Egyptologist, Gaston Maspero, is deemed a distinguished site with its circular shape that receives over 30 thousand individuals daily.

Enderta Province

According to Paul Henze, Ras Wolde Selassie was the first ruler of this period to have close contact with Europeans, hosting three British diplomats, George Annesley, Viscount Valentia, his secretary Henry Salt, and Pearce.

František Lexa

František Lexa (1876-1960) was a Czechoslovakian Egyptologist.

Geoffrey Thorndike Martin

Geoffrey Thorndike Martin (born 28 May 1934) is an egyptologist, Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology Emeritus, University College, London, Joint Field Director of the Amarna Royal Tombs Project and fellow commoner of Christ's College, Cambridge.

Georg Steindorff

Georg Steindorff (November 12, 1861, Dessau–August 28, 1951, North Hollywood, California) was a German Egyptologist.

Griffith Institute

Among some seventy major groups of material the Institute holds the papers of Sir Alan H. Gardiner, Battiscombe Gunn and Jaroslav Černý, records made by Howard Carter during his discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, as well as the documentation from the Nubian expeditions of Griffith and Sir Henry Wellcome.

Hamitic

It was the Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius (1810–1884) who restricted Hamitic to the non-Semitic languages in Africa, which are characterized by a grammatical gender system.

Harsiese A

King Hedjkheperre Setepenamun Harsiese or Harsiese A, is viewed by the Egyptologist Kenneth Kitchen in his Third Intermediate Period in Egypt, to be both a "High Priest of Amun" and the son of the High Priest of Amun Shoshenq C.

Henry William Beechey

Some time before 1816 he had become secretary to Henry Salt, the British consul-general in Egypt, and at the latter's request accompanied Belzoni in that and the following year beyond the second cataract, for the purpose of studying and making designs of the fine monuments existing at Thebes.

Hilde Zaloscer

Prof. Dr. Hilde (Hildegard) Zaloscer (Zaloszer) (1903 Banja Luka, Bosnia & Herzegovina – 1999 Vienna, Austria) was an art historian, Egyptologist, Coptologist, essayist, novelist and a prominent expert of Coptic history and art.

House of Hauteclocque

The youngest of these had a son, who became a noted egyptologist; he, in turn, had three sons.

In Search for Khnum

The novel In Search for Khnum is, for the writer and Egyptologist Hussein Bassir, the first book with a Pharaonic setting among contemporary Egyptian literature in the style of ‘90s generation’.

Jean Kérisel

Jean Lehuérou Kérisel (1908–2005) was a French engineer and Egyptologist.

Jean-Pierre Houdin

The same year Houdin, the Egyptologist Bob Brier, Tayoubi and Breitner with a team of engineers of Dassault Systèmes decided to analyse the King’s Chamber cracks with software normally used by industrial corporations to simulate the behaviour of their products in operation and to detect any structural weaknesses in order to solve problems as early as the design phase (SIMULIA).

Jeremy Curl

Curl worked briefly at the British Museum, London, in the Ancient Egyptology department alongside renown Egyptologist Vivien Davies where he learnt to read Egyptian hieroglyphs and awakened his love for ancient and enigmatic cultures.

John Griffiths

J. Gwyn Griffiths (1911–2004), Welsh poet, Egyptologist and nationalist political activist

John Tait

John W. Tait (born 1945), Egyptologist and Edwards Professor for the Institute of Archaeology at University College London

John Waterbury

University of Chicago Egyptologist Peter Dorman succeeded him as the 15th president of AUB on July 1, 2008.

Journal of Biblical Literature

Samuel Sharpe, an English ordained minister and egyptologist was editor of a journal also called Journal of Bibilical Literature, published from London prior to the establishment of SBL and its journal.

Joyce Tyldesley

Joyce Tyldesley is a British archaeologist and Egyptologist, academic, writer and broadcaster.

Killyleagh

Reverend Edward Hincks, a renowned Assyriologist and Egyptologist, was appointed Church of Ireland rector of Killyleagh in 1825, an office he was to hold for the remaining forty-one years of his life.

Kulb

The first sketches of the domed church were made in the beginning of the 20th century by the English Egyptologist Somers Clarke, who published his findings in 1912 in Christian Antiquities in the Nile Valley.

Leadenhall Press

Other authors included Andrew Lang, Egyptologist W. M. Flinders Petrie, Lady Florence Dixie (feminist sister of the infamous Marquess of Queensberry), Max O'Rell, Louis Fagan of the British Museum, J. A. Fuller Maitland, Grant Allen, and Count Eric Stenbock.

Lieblein

Jens (Daniel Carolus) Lieblein (1827–1911), Norwegian Egyptologist and magazine editor

Neferkasokar

Egyptologist and linguist Joachim Friedrich Quack later gave this treatise the name “Book of the Temple”.

Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc

He owned over 18,000 coins and medals, and was also an archaeologist, amateur artist, historian (he demonstrated that Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain set out not from Calais but from St Omer), Egyptologist, botanist, zoologist (studying chameleons, crocodiles, the elephant and the alzaron, a sort of Nubian gazelle with a bull-like head, now disappeared), physiologist, geographer (put on the project of linking Aix to Marseilles), and ecologist.

Orly Goldwasser

Orly Goldwasser is an Israeli Egyptologist, professor of Egyptology at the Hebrew University.

Pierre Montet

After his death, Austrian Egyptologist Manfred Bietak discovered that although Montet had discovered Pi-Ramesses stonework at Tanis, the true location of the ancient city lay some 30 km to the south.

Polyglotta Africana

He transcribed the data using a uniform phonetic script devised by the Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius.

Proto-Sinaitic script

Egyptologist Orly Goldwasser believes the script was most likely invented during the reign of pharaoh Amenemhet III of the Twelfth Dynasty.

R.K.Sennaya Swamy Muthukrishnan

R.K.Sennaya Swamy Muthukrishnan is an Indian egyptologist best known for discovering the base triangles of the Egyptian pyramids of Giza are equal in angular measurements to those of the Sri Yantra,.

Sarah Parcak

Sarah Parcak (born Bangor, Maine), Associate professor of Anthropology and Director of the Laboratory for Global Observation at the University of Alabama, is an American archaeologist and Egyptologist, who uses satellite imaging to identify potential archaeological sites in Egypt and Rome.

Smith and Pepper

The firm made a wide range of jewellery, notably swallow designs, popular during the World Wars and Egyptian style snake designs, after Egyptologist Howard Carter made ancient Egypt fashionable.

Sofitel Winter Palace Hotel

George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, a collector of Egyptian antiquities who financed archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, stayed many times at the Winter Palace.

Sphinx water erosion hypothesis

Recent studies by German climatologists Rudolph Kuper and Stefan Kröpelin, of the University of Cologne suggest the change from a wet to a much drier climate may have occurred as much as 500 years later than currently thought, coming to an end, they contend, around 3,500-1,500 B.C. Egyptologist Mark Lehner believes this climate change may have been responsible for the severe weathering found on the Sphinx and other sites of the 4th Dynasty.

John Anthony West, an author and alternative Egyptologist, investigated Schwaller de Lubicz's ideas further and, in 1989, sought the opinion of Robert M. Schoch, a geologist and associate professor of natural science at the College of General Studies at Boston University.

The Mask of Fu Manchu

Sir Denis Nayland Smith (Lewis Stone) of the British Secret Service warns Egyptologist Sir Lionel Barton (Lawrence Grant) that he must beat Fu Manchu in the race to find the tomb of Genghis Khan.

Thutmose III

Cline, Eric H. and O'Connor, David, Thutmose III : A New Biography, University of Michigan Press, 2006.

Wente

Edward F. Wente (born 1930), American Egyptologist and professor emeritus

Wilbour

Charles Edwin Wilbour (1833 – 1896), American journalist and Egyptologist


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