egyptologist
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1. an archeologist who specializes in Egyptology (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | archaeologist, archeologist, |
| definition | : | an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | carter, howard carter, |
| definition | : | Englishman and Egyptologist who in 1922 discovered and excavated the tomb of Tutankhamen (1873-1939) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | champollion, jean francois champollion, |
| definition | : | Frenchman and Egyptologist who studied the Rosetta Stone and in 1821 became the first person to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics (1790-1832) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | thomas young, young, |
| definition | : | 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) (noun.person) |
| derivation | : | egyptology, |
| definition | : | archeology of ancient Egyptian artifacts (noun.cognition) |
| derivation | : | egyptology, |
| definition | : | archeology of ancient Egyptian artifacts (noun.cognition) |
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