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Archaeologist's course, perhaps
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egyptology
Alternative clues for the word egyptology
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Wiktionary
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n. (alternative spelling of Egyptology English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Egyptology \E`gyp*tol"o*gy\, n. [Egypt + -logy.] The science or study of Egyptian antiquities, esp. the hieroglyphics.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Egyptology (from Egypt and Greek , -logia . ) is the study of 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. A practitioner ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1841, from Egypt + -ology . Related: Egyptologist .
Usage examples of egyptology.
He had written authoritatively and inaccurately on practically every scholarly subject, in Assyriology as well as Egyptology.
Naturally, in progressive studies like those of Egyptology and Assyriology, a good many theories and conclusions must be tentative and provisional only.
He'd always been an intense man, determined to make the Egyptology Department at the ROM one of the best in the world despite budgets and bureaucrats, but in all the years she'd known him-and they were a good many years, she admitted silently to herself-she'd never seen him this obsessed.
Flinders Petrie, was later to be universally acclaimed as the founder of the academic discipline of Egyptology.
David was one of the best artists and epigraphers in the field and Lia had learned enough about Egyptology to have become a valued assistant.