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Egyptology   Listen
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Egyptology  n.  The science or study of Egyptian antiquities, esp. the hieroglyphics.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Egyptology" Quotes from Famous Books



... to, and a pleased interest in the subject under consideration, may promote the conversation most skillfully and delightfully. Knowledge of the subject is not always necessary. An English savant, deeply interested in Egyptology, once escorted a young lady out to dinner. His conversation, as a matter of course, turned entirely upon excavations, hieroglyphics, and kindred topics. Upon all these the young lady was profoundly ignorant, but, if unversed in Egyptian lore, ...
— Social Life - or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society • Maud C. Cooke

... divisions appear to be of cane or wood, while in the Cairo reed they are of iron (?steel). The sketch of this Coptic reed, Fig. 25, has been drawn specially for me, and Miss W. M. Crompton, Assistant Keeper in Egyptology in the Manchester University Museum, has kindly examined the sketch with the article and pronounced it correct. We may, I think, safely conclude that the reed found by Dr. Garstang is Coptic and not ...
— Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms • H. Ling Roth



Words linked to "Egyptology" :   archeology, Egyptologist, archaeology



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