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This is a partial list of Egyptologists. An Egyptologist is any
archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...
, historian, linguist, or
art historian Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...
who specializes in Egyptology, the scientific study of Ancient Egypt and its antiquities. Demotists are Egyptologists who specialize in the study of the Demotic language and field of Demotic Studies. Although a practitioner of the disciplined study of Ancient Egypt and Egyptian antiquities is an "Egyptologist", the field of Egyptology is not exclusive to such practitioners.


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* Barbara G. Adams (British, 1945–2002) * Johan David Åkerblad (Swedish, 1763–1819) * Cyril Aldred (British, 1914–1991) * James Peter Allen (American, born 1945) *
Maurice Alliot Maurice Alliot (24 September 1903 – 22 October 1960) was a French Egyptologist. He was a professor of Egyptology at Lyons (from 1937) and Paris (from 1953). Under the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology from 1930, he participated in ex ...
(French, 1903–1960) * Hartwig Altenmüller (German, born 1938) * Émile Amélineau (French, 1850–1915) * Alessia Amenta (Italian) * Guillemette Andreu (French, born 1948) *
Tadeusz Andrzejewski Tadeusz Andrzejewski (1923–1961) was a Polish archeologist and Egyptologist. Life Andrzejewski was born in Łódź. After leaving school, he joined the staff of the Warsaw National Museum in the 1940s, and was appointed to a post in Unive ...
(Polish, 1923–1961) * Jan Assmann (German, born 1938) * Éric Aubourg (French) * Sydney Hervé Aufrère (French, born 1951) * A.-C.-T.-Émile Prisse d'Avennes (French, 1807–1879) * Edward Russell Ayrton (British, 1882–1914)


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* Alexander Badawy (Egyptian, 1913–1986) * John Robert Baines (British, born 1946) * Pascale Ballet (French, born 1953) *
Émile Baraize Émile Baraize (28 August 1874 – 15 April 1952) was a French Egyptologist. Life In 1912 he succeeded Alessandro Barsanti as director of the director of works within the Egyptian Antiquities Service. Throughout his life, he worked to restore ...
(French, 1874–1952) * Alessandro Barsanti (Italian, 1858–1917) *
Hussein Bassir Hussein Bassir is an Egyptian archaeologist of Giza Pyramids and one of the directors (field director) of the excavation team in the Valley of the Golden Mummies at Bahariya Oasis. In 1994, he got his BA in Egyptology from Cairo University. In 20 ...
(Egyptian, born 1973) *
Michel Baud Michel Baud (11 November 1963 – 13 September 2012) was a French Egyptologist, head of the Nubian Sudan section in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities of the Louvre Museum. As such, he was the organizer of an exhibition devoted exclusively to M ...
(French, 1963–2012) * Alfred Chester Beatty (American, 1875–1968) *
Nathalie Beaux-Grimal Nathalie Beaux-Grimal (born 1960) is a French Egyptologist, a research associate at the Collège de France and the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo (IFAO). She was educated at Yale University and obtained a Ph.D. in Egyptology un ...
(French, born 1960) * Jürgen von Beckerath (German, 1920–2016) * Giovanni Battista Belzoni (Italian, 1778–1823) *
Georges Aaron Bénédite Georges Aaron Bénédite (10 August 1857 26 March 1926) was a French Egyptologist and curator at the Louvre. He was born at Nîmes, the son of Samuel Bénédite and Isabelle Bénédite born Lisbonne, whose second husband Georges Lafenestre, was ...
(French 1857–1926) * Yosef Ben-Jochannan (American, 1918–2015) * Margaret Benson (English, 1865–1916) * Susanne Bickel (Swiss, born 1960) * Manfred Bietak (Austrian, born 1940) *
Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing (22 April 1873, Potsdam – 12 January 1956, Oberaudorf am Inn) was a German Egyptologist. He was the son of Prussian general Moritz Ferdinand von Bissing (1844–1917). He studied classical philology, archaeology, ...
(German, 1873–1956) * Fernand Bisson de la Roque (French, 1885–1958) *
Aylward Manley Blackman Aylward Manley Blackman, FBA (30 January 1883 – 9 March 1956) was a British Egyptologist, who excavated various sites in Egypt and Nubia, notably Buhen and Meir. Having taught at Worcester College, Oxford, he was Brunner Professor of Egypt ...
(British, 1883–1956) *
C. Blankenberg-van Delden Catharina Blankenberg-van Delden (Dutch East Indies, 23 March 1906 – Bergen op Zoom, 1994) was a Dutch Egyptologist. Life and work Catharina van Delden grew up in the Dutch East Indies; prior to the Japanese occupation during World War II s ...
(Dutch, 1906–1994) *
Edward Bleiberg Edward "Ed" Bleiberg (born 1951) is an American archaeologist and Egyptologist. He graduated from Haverford College, did graduate studies at Yale University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and finally received an M.A. and Ph.D. from the ...
(American, born 1951) *
Martin Bommas Martin Bommas (born 1967 in Heilbronn) is a German Egyptologist, archaeologist, and philologist. He is a professor and Museum Director at the Macquarie University History Museum in Sydney, Australia and the Director of the Qubbet el-Hawa Researc ...
(German, born 1967) * Charlotte Booth (British, born 1975) * Ludwig Borchardt (German, 1863–1938) *
Käthe Bosse-Griffiths Käthe Bosse-Griffiths (16 July 1910 – 4 April 1998) was an eminent Egyptologist. Born in Germany, she moved to Britain as a political refugee and married a Welshman. She became a writer in the Welsh language, and made a unique contribution ...
(German-British, 1910–1998) * Urbain Bouriant (French, 1849–1903) *
Peter J. Brand Peter James Brand (born 5 April 1967) is a Canadian Egyptologist from Toronto, Ontario. He is also a naturalized American citizen. He completed his PhD in 1998 at the University of Toronto with his dissertation ''The Monuments of Seti I: Epigraphic ...
(Canadian-American, born 1967) *
James Henry Breasted James Henry Breasted (; August 27, 1865 – December 2, 1935) was an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and historian. After completing his PhD at the University of Berlin in 1894, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. In 1901 he ...
(American, 1865–1935) * Edda Bresciani (Italian, 1930–2020) * Bob Brier (American, born 1943) *
Edwin C. Brock Edwin C. Brock (20 April 1946 - 22 September 2015) was an American Egyptologist, who worked for the Theban Mapping Project at the American University in Cairo. He worked on royal sarcophagi in the Valley of the Kings. He also worked in the tombs of ...
(American, 1946–2015) *
Mary Brodrick Mary (May) Brodrick (5 April 1858 – 13 July 1933) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who was one of the first female excavators in Egypt. She persisted in her studies despite the initial opposition of her tutors and fellow students ...
(British, 1858–1933) *
Myrtle Florence Broome Myrtle Florence Broome (22 February 1888 – 27 January 1978) was a British Egyptologist and artist known for her illustrated work with Amice Calverley on the Temple of Set I at Abydos in Egypt and her paintings of Egyptian village life in the ...
(British, 1888–1978) * Émile Brugsch (German, 1842–1930) * Heinrich Karl Brugsch (German, 1827–1894) * Guy Brunton (English, 1878–1948) * Betsy Bryan (American, born 1949) *
E. A. Wallis Budge Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (27 July 185723 November 1934) was an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East. He made numerous trips ...
(British, 1857–1934) * Harry Burton (British, 1879–1940) * James Burton (British, 1788–1862)


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Agnès Cabrol Agnès Cabrol (2 July 1964 in Avignon – January 2007 in Gordes, Vaucluse) was a French Egyptologist. Life and work Born in Provence, Agnès Cabrol encountered Egyptology in her reading and quickly dreamed of devoting her life to it. She gr ...
(French, 1964–2007) *
Arthur Callender Arthur Robert Callender (13 December 1875 – 12 December 1936), nicknamed ''Pecky'', was an English engineer and archaeologist, best known for his role as assistant to Howard Carter during the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in the 1920s. ...
(British, 1875–1936) *
Amice Calverley Amice Calverley (9 April 1896 – 10 April 1959) was an English-born Canadian Egyptologist who was instrumental to the recording and publication of the decoration in the temple of King Sethos I at Abydos. During and after World War II she engage ...
(British-Canadian, 1896–1959) *
Ricardo Caminos Ricardo Augusto Caminos (c. 1916 – May 28, 1992) was an Argentine Egyptologist focused on epigraphy and paleography. Caminos was born in Buenos Aires and had a brother Hugo and sister Helena. As a child he was fascinated by ancient history, and ...
(Argentinian, 1916–1992) * Jean Capart (Belgian, 1877–1947) * George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (English, 1866–1923) *
Howard Carter Howard Carter (9 May 18742 March 1939) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun in November 1922, the best-preserved pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the K ...
(British, 1874–1939) *
Giovanni Battista Caviglia Giovanni Battista Caviglia (1770 in Genoa – September 7, 1845, in Paris) was an Italian explorer, navigator and Egyptologist. He was one of the pioneers of Egyptian archeology of his time. He was influential in the excavation of the Sphin ...
(Italian, 1770–1845) * Jaroslav Černý (Czech, 1898–1970) * François Chabas (French, 1817–1882) *
Jean-François Champollion Jean-François Champollion (), also known as Champollion ''le jeune'' ('the Younger'; 23 December 17904 March 1832), was a French philologist and orientalist, known primarily as the decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs and a founding figure in th ...
(French, 1790–1832) * Émile Gaston Chassinat (French, 1868–1948) *
Charles Chipiez Charles Chipiez (; 1835–1901) was an influential French architect, Egyptologist, Iranologist, and an avid historian of the ancient world's architecture. He was a teacher at École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris, France, and helped build the " ...
(French, 1835–1901) * Somers Clarke (English, 1841–1926) * Jean Clédat (French, 1871–1943) * Kathlyn M. Cooney (American) *
Jean-Pierre Corteggiani Jean-Pierre Corteggiani (1942 – 15 March 2022) was a French Egyptologist. Career In 1993, a dyke was to be built on the alleged site of the Lighthouse of Alexandria. A rescue operation was entrusted to Jean-Yves Empereur and Jean-Pierre Cor ...
(French, born 1942) *
Pearce Paul Creasman Pearce Paul Creasman (born 1981) is an archaeologist in the fields of Egyptology, maritime archaeology, and dendrochronology. In recognition of his work he has been made a fellow of the Explorer's Club, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Linn ...
(American, born 1981) * Gwendolen Crewdson (British, 1872-1913) *
Winifred M. Crompton Winifred M. Crompton (1870 – 8 October 1932) was a British Egyptologist and curator at the Manchester Museum. Career Crompton began her career at the Manchester Museum as its printer. In 1912, she became the first assistant-in-charge of ...
(British, 1870–1932) * Silvio Curto (Italian, 1919–2015)


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* Alec Naylor Dakin (English, 1912–2003) *
Alicia Daneri Alicia Daneri Rodrigo (born 1942) is an Argentine Egyptologist who earned a doctorate at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Daneri graduated in History at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. She completed a Master's Degree in Egyptology at the Un ...
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Georges Émile Jules Daressy Georges Émile Jules Daressy (19 March 1864 – 28 February 1938) was a French Egyptologist. He worked from 1887 in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Amongst his responsibilities was the museum's move from Bulaq to Giza in 1891, and then to the pres ...
(French, 1864–1938) * François Daumas (French, 1918–1984) * Françoise Dunand (French, born 1934) *
Colleen Darnell Colleen Darnell (; Manassa; born 1980) is an American Egyptologist. Her areas of expertise include Late Period uses of the Underworld Books, ancient Egyptian military history, the literature of New Kingdom Egypt, and Egyptian revival history. ...
(American, born 1980) * John Coleman Darnell (American, born 1962) *
Nina de Garis Davies The Egyptologists Nina M. Davies (6 January 1881 – 21 April 1965) and Norman de Garis Davies (1865–5 November 1941) were a married couple of illustrators and copyists who worked in the early and mid-twentieth century drawing and recording paint ...
(American, 1881–1965) *
Norman de Garis Davies The Egyptologists Nina M. Davies (6 January 1881 – 21 April 1965) and Norman de Garis Davies (1865–5 November 1941) were a married couple of illustrators and copyists who worked in the early and mid-twentieth century drawing and recording paint ...
(American, 1865–1941) *
Theodore M. Davis Theodore M. Davis (May 7, 1838 – February 23, 1915) was an American lawyer and businessman. He is best known for his excavations in Egypt's Valley of the Kings between 1902 and 1913. Biography Theodore Montgomery Davis was born in Springfield, ...
(American, 1837–1915) * Théodule Devéria (French, 1831–1871) * Aidan Dodson (English, born 1962) * Sergio Donadoni (Italian, 1914–2015) *
Günter Dreyer Günter Dreyer (5 October 1943 – 12 March 2019) was an Egyptologist at the German Archaeological Institute. In southern Egypt, Dreyer discovered records of linen and oil deliveries which have been carbon-dated to between 3300 BCE and 3200 B ...
(German, born 1943) *
Étienne Drioton Étienne Marie Felix Drioton (21 November 1889 – 17 January 1961) was a French Egyptologist, archaeologist, and Catholic canon. He was born in Nancy and died in Montgeron. Biography Etienne Drioton, his father, was originally from Burgundy wh ...
(French, 1889–1961) * Bernardino Drovetti (Italian, 1776–1852) * Johannes Dümichen (German, 1833–1894)


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Bendix Ebbell Bendix Ebbell (April 12, 1865 – June 9, 1941) was a Norwegian theologian and physician. He was born in Christiania. He took the cand.theol. degree in 1888 and the cand.med. degree in 1892. From 1893 to 1912 he worked as a physician for the ...
(Norwegian, 1865–1941) * Georg Ebers (German, 1837–1898) * Dorothy Eady (English, 1904–1981) * Campbell Cowan Edgar (British, 1870–1938) * Amelia Edwards (British, 1831–1892) * Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards (British, 1909–1996) *
August Eisenlohr August Adolf Eisenlohr (6 October 1832, Mannheim – 24 February 1902, Heidelberg) was a German Egyptologist. He studied theology and sciences at the universities of Heidelberg and Göttingen, and spent several years involved in the chemical ...
(German, 1832–1902) * Walter Bryan Emery (British, 1903–1971) *
Jean-Yves Empereur Jean-Yves Empereur (; born 1952) is a French archeologist. He studied classic literature in the University Paris IV Sorbonne ( DEA, CAPES, Agrégation de lettres in 1975, Doctorat in archeology in 1977). He is a former member (since 1978) ...
(French, born 1952) * Reginald Engelbach (British, 1888–1946) * Adolf Erman (German, 1854–1937)


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Raymond O. Faulkner Dr Raymond Oliver Faulkner, FSA, (26 December 1894 – 3 March 1982) was an English Egyptologist and philologist of the ancient Egyptian language. He was born in Shoreham, Sussex, and was the son of bank clerk Frederick Arthur Faulkner ...
(British 1894–1982) * Cecil Mallaby Firth (British, 1878–1931) * Henry George Fischer (American, 1923–2006) *
Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert (abbreviated Hans-W.; born 2 September 1954) is a German professor of Egyptology Egyptology (from ''Egypt'' and Greek , '' -logia''; ar, علم المصريات) is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language ...
(German, born 1954) * Joann Fletcher (British, born 1966) * Georges Foucart (French, 1865–1943) * Detlef Franke (German, 1952–2007) * Henri Frankfort (Dutch, 1897–1954) *
Henning Franzmeier Henning Franzmeier is a German archaeologist and Egyptologist with the Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim and University College London (UCL). Taking over from Edgar B. Pusch he has been field director of the "Qantir-Piramesse Project" in E ...
(German) * George Willoughby Fraser (British, 1866–1923) * Renée Friedman (American) * Elizabeth Frood (New Zealand)


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* Marc Gabolde (French, born 1957) * Alan Gardiner (British, 1879–1963) * Jean Sainte-Fare Garnot (French, 1908–1963) * John Garstang (British, 1876–1956) * Henri Gauthier (French, 1877–1950) *
Joseph Étienne Gautier Joseph Étienne Gautier (6 September 1861, Oullins – 10 February 1924, Paris) was a French archaeologist. He received his education in his hometown of Oullins and at the ''École pratique des hautes études'' (EPHE) in Paris. From 1884 to 18 ...
(French, 1861–1924) * John Gee (American, born 1964) *
Paul Ghalioungui Paul Ghalioungui or Ghalioungi (1908–1987) ( ar, بول غليونجي), MD (Cairo), MRCP (Lond), Professor of Medicine and former Chairman of Internal Medicine department, Ain Shams University Faculty of Medicine. An Egyptian endocrinologist, ...
(Egyptian, 1908–1987) *
Stephen Ranulph Kingdon Glanville Stephen Ranulph Kingdon Glanville, (26 April 1900 – 26 April 1956) was an English historian and egyptologist. He was Edwards Professor of Egyptology at University College London from 1935 to 1946. He was then Sir Herbert Thompson Professor of ...
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Orly Goldwasser Orly Goldwasser is an Israeli Egyptologist, professor of Egyptology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Orly Goldwasser received her B.A. at Tel Aviv University, continued studying at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where she was awarded he ...
(Israeli) * Vladimir Golenishchev (Russian, 1856–1947) * Zakaria Goneim (Egyptian, 1905–1959) * Charles Wycliffe Goodwin (English, 1817–1878) * Janet Gourlay (Scottish, 1863–1912) *
Georges Goyon Georges Goyon (19051996) was a French-Egyptian Egyptologist, a senior fellow at the National Centre for Scientific Research, and King Farouk's private archaeologist. Biography Goyon was born in Port-Saïd, Egypt, in 1905, son of Henri Goyon, ...
(French, 1905–1996) * Pierre Grandet (French, born 1954) * Hermann Grapow (German, 1885–1967) * Eugène Grébaut (French, 1846–1915) *
Bernard Pyne Grenfell Bernard Pyne Grenfell FBA (16 December 1869 – 18 May 1926) was an English scientist and Egyptologist. Life Grenfell was the son of John Granville Grenfell FGS and Alice Grenfell. He was born in Birmingham and brought up and educated at Clif ...
(British, 1869–1926) * Francis Llewellyn Griffith (British, 1862–1934) * Nora Griffith (British, 1870–1937) * Nicolas Grimal (French, born 1948) *
Sarah Israelit Groll Sarah Israelit Groll ( he, שרה ישראלית-גרול; 1925–2007) was an Israeli Egyptologist and linguist. Sarah Groll was born 1925 in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine. She studied at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, under Hans Jakob Polot ...
(Israeli, 1925–2007) *
Battiscombe Gunn Battiscombe George "Jack" Gunn, (30 June 1883 – 27 February 1950) was an English Egyptologist and philologist. He published his first translation from Egyptian in 1906. He translated inscriptions for many important excavations and sites, in ...
(English, 1883–1950)


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* Labib Habachi (Egyptian, 1906–1984) *
Hermine Hartleben Hermine Ida Auguste Hartleben (2 June 1846 – 18 July 1919) was a German Egyptologist. She was the daughter of a forest officer in Altenau. Later, she studied in Hanover and became a teacher. She studied Greek archaeology at the Sorbonne, taught ...
(German, 1846–1918) * Selim Hassan (Egyptian, 1887–1961) * Zahi Hawass (Egyptian, born 1947) * William C. Hayes (American, 1903–1963) * Wolfgang Helck (German, 1914–1993) *
Johann Jakob Hess Johann Jakob Hess (also ''Jean Jaques Hess''; Freiburg im Üechtland, (Fr. Fribourg), Switzerland, 11 January 1866 – Zurich, Switzerland, 29 April 1949), was a Swiss Egyptologist and Assyriologist and an expert in other Oriental languages. ...
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James K. Hoffmeier James K. Hoffmeier (born February 13, 1951 in Egypt) is an American Old Testament scholar, an archaeologist and an egyptologist. He was Professor of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern History and Archaeology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity S ...
(American, born 1951) * Erik Hornung (Swiss, born 1933) *
Arthur Surridge Hunt Arthur Surridge Hunt, FBA (1 March 1871 – 18 June 1934) was an English papyrologist. Hunt was born in Romford, Essex, England. Over the course of many years, Hunt, along with Bernard Grenfell, recovered many papyri from excavation sites in E ...
(British, 1871–1934) *
Brian M. Hauglid Brian M. Hauglid (born 1954) is an emeritus professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University (BYU). From 2014 to 2017, he was the editor-in-chief of the ''Journal of Book of Mormon Studies'', and he was the director of the Laura F. Willes ...
(American, born 1954)


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Salima Ikram Salima Ikram ( ur, سلیمہ اکرام; born 17 May 1965) is a Pakistani professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo, a participant in many Egyptian archaeological projects, the author of several books on Egyptian archaeology, a ...
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Sergei Ignatov Sergei Simeonov Ignatov ( bg, Сергей Симеонов Игнатов; born August 6, 1960) is a Bulgarian Egyptologist and politician, minister of education, youth and science from November 2009 to 28 January 2013. Ignatov was born in Vidi ...
(Bulgarian, born 1960)


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* Christian Jacq (French, born 1947) *
Thomas Garnet Henry James Thomas Garnet Henry James, (8 May 1923 – 16 December 2009), known as Harry James, was a British Egyptologist, epigrapher, and museum curator. He is best known for his career long association with the British Museum, serving with the Department ...
(British, 1923–2009) * Gustave Jéquier (Swiss, 1868–1946) *
Jean-Baptiste Jollois Jean-Baptiste Prosper Jollois (4 January 1776 – 24 June 1842) was a French engineer who together with Édouard de Villiers du Terrage journeyed with Napoleon to Egypt, and prepared the ''Description de l'Égypte The ''Description d ...
(French, 1776–1842) * Edme-François Jomard (French, 1777–1862) * Pierre Jouguet (French, 1869–1949) * Hermann Junker (German, 1877–1962)


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László Kákosy Dr. László Kákosy (Budapest, 15 August 1932 – Budapest, 29 January 2003) was a Hungarian people, Hungarian Egyptologist, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is one of the most esteemed Hungarian egyptologists and was the author ...
(Hungarian, 1932–2003) * Ahmed Kamal (Egyptian, 1851–1923) * Naguib Kanawati (Egyptian-Australian, born 1941) *
Peter Kaplony Peter Árpád Kaplony (June 15, 1933 in Budapest – February 11, 2011 in Zurich) was a Hungarian-born Swiss egyptologist. Life Kaplony, son of a Hungarian military officer, emigrated to Switzerland as a child in December 1944. He became a Swis ...
(Hungarian-Swiss, 1933–2011) * Barry Kemp (British) *
Jean Kérisel Jean Lehuérou Kérisel (18 November 1908 – 22 January 2005) was a French engineer and Egyptologist. He was a specialist in soil mechanics and geotechnics. After studying at Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussée ...
(French, 1908–2005) * Athanasius Kircher (German, 1602–1680) * Kenneth Anderson Kitchen (British, born 1932) * Giovanni Kminek-Szedlo (Czech-Italian, 1828–1896) * Jirō Kondō (Japanese, born 1951) * Charles Kuentz (French, 1895–1978)


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* Pierre Lacau (French, 1873–1963) *
Violette Lafleur Violette Lafleur (sometimes Violet Lafleur; 1897–1965) was a Canadian conservator and curator for the Department of Egyptology and Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London. Education and career She attended the Grove Scho ...
(Canadian, 1897–1965) * Jean-Philippe Lauer (French, 1902–2001) * Jean Leclant (French, 1920–2011) * Conradus Leemans (Dutch, 1809–1893) *
Eugène Lefébure Eugène Lefébure (11 November 1838 – 9 April 1908) was a French Egyptologist born at Prunoy. Working with the French Archaeological Mission in the Valley of the Kings, he worked in the tomb of Ramesses IV (KV2). He also documented the tomb ...
(French, 1838–1908) * Gustave Lefebvre (French, 1879–1957) * Georges Legrain (French, 1865–1917) *
Mark Lehner Mark Lehner is an American archaeologist with more than 30 years of experience excavating in Egypt. He was born in North Dakota in 1950. His approach, as director of Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA), is to conduct interdisciplinary archaeo ...
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Oscar Lemm Oscar Eduardovich Lemm (russian: Оскар Эдуардович Лемм, 1856-1918) was a Russian Egyptologist and Coptologist who specialized in the study of Coptic writings. Life Lemm had studied at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum and the Universit ...
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Charles Lenormant Charles Lenormant (1 June 1802, Paris – 22 November 1859, Athens) was a French archaeologist. Biography After pursuing his studies at the Lycée Charlemagne and the Lycée Napoléon, he took up law, but a visit to Italy and Sicily (1822 ...
(French, 1802–1859) *
Karl Richard Lepsius Karl Richard Lepsius ( la, Carolus Richardius Lepsius) (23 December 181010 July 1884) was a pioneering Prussian Egyptologist, linguist and modern archaeologist. He is widely known for his magnum opus ''Denkmäler aus Ägypten und Äthiopien'' ...
(German, 1810–1884) *
Leonard H. Lesko Leonard H. Lesko (born 1938) was Chairman of the Department of Egyptology at Brown University and held the Charles Edwin Wilbour Professorship. In 1961, he received a B.A. in Classics from Loyola University Chicago, and his masters in 1964. In ...
(American, born 1938) * František Lexa (Czech, 1876–1960) * Nestor L'Hôte (French, 1804–1842) * Miriam Lichtheim (Israeli, 1914–2004) * Jens Lieblein (Norwegian, 1827–1911) * Victor Loret (French, 1859–1946)


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* Arthur Cruttenden Mace (British, 1874–1928) *
Auguste Ferdinand François Mariette François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette (11 February 182118 January 1881) was a French people, French scholar, archaeologist and Egyptology, Egyptologist, and the founder of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities, the forerunner of the Supreme Coun ...
(French, 1821–1881) * Gaston Maspero (French, 1846–1916) * Bernard Mathieu (French, born 1959) * Bernadette Menu (French, born 1942) * Barbara Mertz (American, 1927–2013) * Kazimierz Michałowski (Polish, 1901–1981) *
Béatrix Midant-Reynes Béatrix Midant-Reynes is a French Egyptologist who was director of the Institut français d'archéologie orientale from 2010 to 2015. In 2004, Midant-Reynes won the Diane Potier-Boès Award for her work on the origins of Egypt. Midant-Reynes cur ...
(French) * Nicholas Millet (American, 1934–2004) *Sir Robert Mond (British, 1867–1938) * Pierre Montet (French, 1885–1966) * Ludwig David Morenz (German, born 1965) *
Alexandre Moret Alexandre Moret (; 19 September 1868, Aix-les-Bains – 2 February 1938, Paris) was a French Egyptologist. Life From 1906 to 1923 Moret was curator of the Musée Guimet. In 1918 Moret succeeded Émile Amélineau as Director of Studies for the Reli ...
(French, 1868–1938) * Jacques de Morgan (French, 1857–1924) * Rosalind Moss (British, 1890–1990) *
Tycho Q. Mrsich Tycho Quirinus Mrsich (15 September 1925 – 22 August 2022) was a German scholar of Ancient Egyptian law. Mrsich received his Dr. phil. degree in Egyptology from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1966 with a dissertation on the anci ...
(German, 1925–2022) * William J. Murnane (American, 1945–2000) *
Margaret Alice Murray Margaret Alice Murray (13 July 1863 – 13 November 1963) was an Anglo-Indian Egyptology, Egyptologist, archaeology, archaeologist, anthropology, anthropologist, historian, and folkloristics, folklorist. The first woman to be appointed as a l ...
(Anglo-Indian, 1863–1963) * Karol Myśliwiec (Polish, born 1943)


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* Édouard Naville (Swiss, 1844–1926) *
Alessandra Nibbi Alessandra Nibbi (30 June 1923 – 15 January 2007) was an Italian-born Australian archaeologist. Biography Born on 30 June 1923 in Porto San Giorgio, Italy, in 1928 she migrated with her family to Australia because of the political sit ...
(Australian, 1923–2007) * Christiane Desroches Noblecourt (French, 1913–2011)


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* David O'Connor (Australian, born 1938) * Boyo Ockinga (German-Australian)


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Laure Pantalacci Laure Pantalacci is a French Egyptologist who was director of the Institut français d'archéologie orientale from 2005 to 2010.Sarah Parcak (American) * Richard Anthony Parker (American, 1905–1993) *
Richard B. Parkinson Richard Bruce Parkinson (born 25 May 1963) is a British Egyptologist and academic. He is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford and a fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford. Until December 2013 he was a curator in the Department of ...
(British, born 1963) * Thomas Eric Peet (British, 1882–1934) * John Pendlebury (British, 1904–1941) *
John Shae Perring John Shae Perring (1813–1869) was a British engineer, anthropologist and Egyptologist, most notable for his work excavating and documenting Egyptian pyramids. In 1837 Perring and British archaeologist Richard William Howard Vyse began exca ...
(British, 1813–1869) * Hilda Petrie (Irish, 1871–1957) * William Flinders Petrie (British, 1853–1942) *
Karl Piehl Karl Piehl (1853–1904) was a Swedish Egyptologist. Biography He was born in Stockholm. He was docent in Egyptian languages at Uppsala University Uppsala University ( sv, Uppsala universitet) is a public university, public research univer ...
(Swedish, 1853–1904) * Willem Pleyte (Dutch, 1836–1903) *
André Pochan André Pochan (5 July 1891 in Fourmies, France – 4 February 1979 in Le Cannet, France) was a French physicist and mathematician and Egyptology enthusiast. He taught at Cairo High School from 1930 to 1937. In 1934 he investigated the coloration ...
(French, 1891–19??) * Paule Posener-Kriéger (French, 1925—1996)


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Joachim Friedrich Quack Joachim Friedrich Quack (born 10 June 1966 in Husum, Schleswig-Holstein) is a German Egyptologist and Demotic Language specialist. Education He studied Egyptology, Semitic and Biblical Archaeology at the University of Tübingen and abroad at t ...
(German, born 1966) * James Edward Quibell (British, 1867–1935) * Stephen Quirke (British)


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* David Randall-MacIver (British-American, 1873–1945) * Maarten Raven (Dutch, born 1953) * John D. Ray (British, born 1945) * Donald B. Redford (Canadian, born 1934) *
Nicholas Reeves Carl Nicholas Reeves, FSA (born 28 September 1956), is a British Egyptologist, archaeologist and museum curator. Background A specialist in Egyptian history and material culture, Reeves is a graduate (first class honours) in Ancient History fr ...
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Adolphe Reinach Adolphe Joseph Reinach (12 January 1887 – 30 August 1914) was a French archaeologist and Egyptologist who participated in excavations in Greece and Egypt and published works on the Gauls. Working in Egypt for the Société française des fou ...
(French, 1887–1914) * George Andrew Reisner (American, 1867–1942) *
Peter le Page Renouf Sir Peter le Page Renouf (23 August 1822 – 14 October 1897) was a British professor, Egyptologist, and museum director, best known for his translation of ''The Book of the Dead''. Personal life Renouf was born in Guernsey on the Channel Is ...
(English, 1822–1897) * Eugène Revillout (French, 1843–1913) *
Alexander Henry Rhind Alexander Henry Rhind (; 26 July 1833 – 3 July 1863) was a Scottish antiquarian and archaeologist. Biography Born in Wick on 26 July 1833 in the Scottish Highlands, Rhind studied at the University of Edinburgh. He has often been erroneously ...
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Herbert Ricke Herbert Rüdiger Ricke (27 September 1901 – 22 March 1976), was a German archaeologist, Egyptologist and architectural historian who is best known for his works on ancient Egyptian architecture. Biography H. Ricke studied architecture from 1 ...
(German, 1901–1976) *
Robert K. Ritner Robert Kriech Ritner (April 5, 1953 – July 25, 2021) was an American Egyptologist most recently at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Life Education Ritner received his BA in psychology from Rice University in 1975, and ...
(American, 1953–2021) * David Roberts (Scottish, 1796–1864) *
Gay Robins Gay Robins is an art historian. She was formerly the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Art History at Emory University. She now holds the title of professor emerita. She also assisted the Michael C. Carlos Museum as a faculty consultant for Ancient ...
(British-American, born 1951) * David Rohl (British, born 1950) * Ippolito Rosellini (Italian, 1800–1843) * Emmanuel de Rougé (French, 1811–1872) *
François Michel de Rozière François Michel de Rozière (29 September 1775, Melun – 4 November 1842, Melun) was a French mining engineer and mineralogist. Life He was a member of the Commission des Sciences et des Arts during the French invasion of Egypt of 1798 and trave ...
(French, 1775–1842) *
Otto Rubensohn Otto Rubensohn (24 November 1867, Kassel – 9 August 1964, Höchenschwand) was a German-Jewish classical archaeologist. He received his education at the Universities of Berlin and Strasbourg, Under the supervision of Adolf Michaelis, he earned h ...
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Donald P. Ryan Donald P. Ryan (born 1957) is an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, writer and a member of the Division of Humanities at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. His areas of research interest include Egyptian archaeology, Polynesian a ...
(American, born 1957) * Kim Ryholt (American/Danish, born 1970)


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* Henry Salt (Brite, 1780–1827) *
Helmut Satzinger Helmut Satzinger (born January 21, 1938, in Linz) is an Austrian Egyptologist and Coptologist. He studied Egyptology, Arabic Philology and African Languages at the University of Vienna and, for 1 year, at Cairo University. Immediately after obtai ...
(Austrian, born 1938) * Serge Sauneron (French, 1927–1976) *
Claude-Étienne Savary Claude-Étienne Savary (1750 in Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine – 1788) was an orientalist, pioneer of Egyptology and translator of the Qur'an. Publications *1782–1783: ''Le Coran, traduit de l'arabe, accompagné de notes, et précédé d'un abrégé ...
(French, 1750–1788) * Otto Schaden (American, 1937–2015) * Hans Heinrich Schaeder (German, 1896–1957) *
Jean-Vincent Scheil Father Jean-Vincent Scheil (born 10 June 1858, Kœnigsmacker – died 21 September 1940, Paris) was a French Dominican scholar and Assyriologist. He is credited as the discoverer of the Code of Hammurabi in Persia. In 1911 he came into possessio ...
(French, 1858–1940) * Ernesto Schiaparelli (Italian, 1856–1928) *
René Schwaller de Lubicz René Adolphe Schwaller de Lubicz (December 30, 1887 – December 7, 1961), born René Adolphe Schwaller in Alsace-Lorraine, was a French Egyptologist and mystic who popularized the pseudoarchaeological idea of sacred geometry in ancient ...
(French, 1887–1961) * Girolamo Segato (Italian, 1792–1836) * Kurt Heinrich Sethe (German, 1869–1934) * Gustav Seyffarth (German-American, 1796–1885) * Ian Shaw (British, born 1961) * David P. Silverman (American, born 1943) *
William Kelly Simpson William Kelly Simpson (January 3, 1928 – March 24, 2017) was an American professor of Egyptology, Archaeology, Ancient Egyptian literature, and Afro-Asiatic languages at Yale University.The Cambridge University Catalogue. (2009)The Great Pyra ...
(American, 1928–2017) * Edwin Smith (American, 1822–1906) * Grafton Elliot Smith (Australian, 1871–1937) * Wilhelm Spiegelberg (German, 1870–1930) * Rainer Stadelmann (German, 1933–2019) * Danijela Stefanovic (Serbian, born 1973) * Georg Steindorff (German, 1861–1951) * Vasily Vasilievich Struve (Russian, 1889–1965) *
Zbigniew Szafrański Zbigniew E. Szafrański is a Polish Egyptologist. Life Zbigniew Szafrański is the director of the Polish archeological mission to Egypt that has been working at Queen Hatshepsut's mortuary temple since 1961. He is known as the founder of the Polis ...
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Mahmoud Maher Taha Mahmoud Maher Taha (Arabic: محمود ماهر طه (born 21 December 1942, in Cairo, Egypt) is an Egyptian Egyptologist. Taha obtained his B.A. in Egyptology from Cairo University (Department of Archeology) in 1963 and completed his Doctorate ...
(Egyptian, born 1942) * Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (Egyptian, 1801–1873) * Elizabeth Thomas (American, 1907–1986) * Herbert Thompson (British, 1859–1944) * Claude Traunecker (French, born 1943) * Bruce Trigger (Canadian, 1937–2006) *
Boris Turayev Boris Alexandrovich Turayev (russian: Бори́с Алекса́ндрович Тура́ев; , Navahrudak – July 23, 1920, Petrograd) was a Russian scholar who studied the Ancient Near East (mainly Ancient Egypt and Nubia). He was admit ...
(Russian, 1868–1920) * Joyce Tyldesley (British, born 1960)


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* Peter Ucko (British, 1938–2007)


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Jeanne Marie Thérèse Vandier d'Abbadie Jeanne Marie Thérèse Vandier d'Abbadie (1899–1977) was a French Egyptologist. Biography Born in Paris in 1899, Vandier d'Abbadie studied at the École du Louvre under the Egyptologist and conservator Charles Boreux. She then went on to the ...
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Alexandre Varille Alexandre Varille (12 March 1909, Lyon – 1 November 1951, Joigny) was a French Egyptologist. Life From a cultured family from Lyon, he studied Economics and Letters. During his studies he met Victor Loret, his Egyptology professor at the Univer ...
(French, 1909–1951) * Luigi Vassalli (Italian, 1812–1887) * Jean Vercoutter (French, 1911–2000) *
Jozef Vergote Jozef Antoon Leo Maria Vergote (1910–1992) was a Flemish Egyptologist and Coptologist. He was born on 16 March 1910 in Gent, Belgium. He received his doctorate degree in classical philology and oriental languages in 1932 from the Catholic Univer ...
(Belgian, 1910–1992) * Miroslav Verner (Czech, born 1941) *
Édouard de Villiers du Terrage Édouard de Villiers du Terrage (26 April 1780 – 19 April 1855) was a French engineer who together with Jean-Baptiste Prosper Jollois journeyed with Napoleon to Egypt, and prepared the ''Description de l'Égypte.'' 1780 births 1855 deat ...
(French, 1780–1855) * Richard William Howard Vyse (British, 1784–1853)


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William Ayres Ward William Ayres Ward (June 10, 1928 – September 13, 1996) was an American Egyptologist. Biography Born in Chicago, Ward studied at the Butler University in Indianapolis and received his B.A. in History of religions in 1951. Then, he attained a ...
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Kent R. Weeks Kent R. Weeks (born December 16, 1941) is an American Egyptologist. Biography He was born in Everett, Washington, on December 16, 1941. He remembers deciding to be an Egyptologist at the age of eight. Weeks attended R. A. Long High School in Lo ...
(American, born 1941) * Arthur Weigall (British, 1880–1934) *
Josef W. Wegner Josef William Wegner (born October 1967) is an American Egyptologist, archaeologist and Professor in Egyptology at the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations of the University of Pennsylvania, where he obtained his Ph.D. degree in ...
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Fred Wendorf Fred may refer to: People * Fred (name), including a list of people and characters with the name Mononym * Fred (cartoonist) (1931–2013), pen name of Fred Othon Aristidès, French * Fred (footballer, born 1949) (1949–2022), Frederico Rodr ...
(American, 1924–2015) * Willeke Wendrich (Dutch-American, born 1961) *
Edward Frank Wente Edward Frank Wente (born 1930) is an American professor emeritus of Egyptology and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a priv ...
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Marcelle Werbrouck Marcelle Werbrouck (23 May 1889 – 1 August 1959) was the first woman Belgian Egyptologist. Her subjects of research were often related the study of prominent goddesses and women of ancient Egypt. Her first important work was dedicated to the '' ...
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Wolfhart Westendorf Wolfhart Westendorf (18 September 1924 – 23 February 2018) was a German Egyptologist. He was a student of Hermann Grapow, and with him, was a co-author of the ''Grundriss der Medizin der alten Ägypter'' (''Plan of Medicine of the Ancient E ...
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Charles Edwin Wilbour Charles Edwin Wilbour (March 17, 1833 – December 17, 1896) was an American journalist and Egyptologist. Wilbour is noted as one of the discoverers of the Elephantine Papyri and the creator of the first English translation of ''Les Misérables' ...
(American, 1833–1896) * John Gardner Wilkinson (British, 1797–1875) *
Richard H. Wilkinson Richard H. Wilkinson (born 1951) is an archaeologist in the field of Egyptology. He is Regents Professor Emeritus, Ph.D. at the University of Arizona and founding director of the University of Arizona Egyptian Expedition. He conducted research and ...
(American, born 1951) * Toby Wilkinson (British, born 1969) *
Hilary Wilson Hilary Wilson is a British Egyptologist. Career Wilson was an enthusiast of Egyptology since childhood. An alumna of Sutton High School, London, Wilson received her Bachelor's Degree in Combined Studies (mathematics, physics and history, inclu ...
(British, born mid 20th century) * John A. Wilson (American, 1899–1976) * Herbert Eustis Winlock (American, 1884–1950) *
Walter Wreszinski Walter Wreszinski (March 18, 1880, in Mogilno (now Poland) – 9 April 1935) was a German Egyptologist and professor at Albertus University of Königsberg. Education He studied in Leipzig from 1898 to 1899, then in Berlin from 1899 to 1904 (unde ...
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Sakuji Yoshimura is a Japanese Egyptologist. He currently is Director of the Institute of Egyptology,
A Short History of Work in Egypt by Wased ...
(Japanese, born 1943) * Thomas Young (scientist), Thomas Young (British, 1773–1829) * Jean Yoyotte (French, 1927–2009)


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* Zbyněk Žába (Czech, 1917–1971) * Louis Vico Žabkar (1914–1994) * Hilde Zaloscer (Austrian, 1903–1999) * Christiane Ziegler (French, born 1942)


Fictional egyptologists

* Evelyn Carnahan (
The Mummy (1999 film) ''The Mummy'' is a 1999 American action-adventure film written and directed by Stephen Sommers. It is a remake of the 1932 film of the same name, starring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah and Arnold Vosloo in the title role as th ...
) * Lara Croft ( Tomb Raider) * Amelia P. Emerson and the Emerson Family ( Crocodile on the Sandbank) * Daniel Jackson (
Stargate ''Stargate'' (often stylized in all caps) is a military science fiction media franchise based on the Stargate (film), film directed by Roland Emmerich, which he co-wrote with producer Dean Devlin. The franchise is based on the idea of an alien E ...
,
Stargate SG–1 ''Stargate SG-1'' (often stylized in all caps, or abbreviated ''SG-1'') is a military science fiction adventure television series within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's ''Stargate'' franchise. The show, created by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner, is ...
) *
Indiana Jones ''Indiana Jones'' is an American media franchise based on the adventures of Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr., a fictional professor of archaeology, that began in 1981 with the film '' Raiders of the Lost Ark''. In 1984, a prequel, '' Th ...
(
Raiders of the Lost Ark ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman. It stars Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronal ...
) *
Sarah Page Sarah Page may refer to: *Sarah Page, a character in the science fiction television series ''Primeval'' *Sarah Page (prohibitionist) (1863–1950), New Zealand teacher, feminist, prohibitionist, socialist, social reformer, and politician * Sarah Pa ...
('' Primeval'') * Sophocles Sarcophagus ('' The Adventures of Tintin'')


See also

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List of female Egyptologists This is a list of female Egyptology, Egyptologists. See also * List of Egyptologists * Lists of women References

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External links


International Directory of Egyptology from the International Association of Egyptologists
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