Egyptologist

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Egyptologist, Egyptologist - Living, Egyptologist - Deceased

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Johann Peter Adolf Erman (October 31, 1854 – 1937) was a renowned Egyptologist and lexicographer was born in Berlin, the son of Georg Adolf Erman and grandson of Paul Erman. Educated at Leipzig and Berlin, he became extraordinary professor in 1883 and ordinary professor in 1892 of Egyptology in the University of Berlin, and in 1885 he was appointed director of the Egyptian department of the royal museum. Adolf Erman and his school at Berlin had the difficult task of recovering the grammar of the Egyptian language and s ...

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• Adolf Erman - Works

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Image:Egypt nefertiti.jpg Ancient Egyptian arts is an art form which is five thousand years old and emerged and took shape in the ancient Egypt, the civilization of the Nile Valley. The ancient Egyptian art, expressed in paintings and sculptures, was highly symbolic and is equally fascinating — this art form revolves round the past which was intended to keep alive the history. In a narrow sense, Ancient Egyptian art refers to the canonical 2D and 3D art developed in Egypt from 3000 BC and used until the 3rd century.

• Art of Ancient Egypt - Character and style
• Art of Ancient Egypt - Periods
• Art of Ancient Egypt - Symbolism
• Art of Ancient Egypt - Art forms
• Art of Ancient Egypt - Architecture
• Art of Ancient Egypt - Papyrus
• Art of Ancient Egypt - Pottery
• Art of Ancient Egypt - Statues
• Art of Ancient Egypt - Hieroglyphics
• Art of Ancient Egypt - Literature
• Art of Ancient Egypt - Paintings
• Art of Ancient Egypt - Evolution of Ancient Egyptian Art
• Art of Ancient Egypt - Middle Kingdom
• Art of Ancient Egypt - The Amarna period
• Art of Ancient Egypt - Late Period
• Art of Ancient Egypt - Greco-Roman Period
• Art of Ancient Egypt - External link

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Adonis | Anat | Asherah | Astarte | Ba'al | Berith | Dagon | El | Elyon | Elohim | Hadad | Moloch | Mot | Salem | Shaddai | Yaw Adonai | El | Elohim | Elyon | Shaddai | Shekinah | YHWH Adad | Amurru | An/Anu | Anshar | Asshur | Abzu/Apsu | Enki/Ea | Enlil | Ereshkigal | Inanna/Ishtar | Kingu | Kishar | Lahmu & Lahamu | Marduk | Mummu | Nabu | Nammu | Nanna/Sin | Nerga ...

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• Tetragrammaton - Meaning
• Tetragrammaton - Using consonants as semi-vowels
• Tetragrammaton - Using the vowels of YHWH
• Tetragrammaton - Vowel marks
• Tetragrammaton - The Scholarly Reconstructed pronunciation יַהְוֶה i.e. Yahweh
• Tetragrammaton - Scholarly sources in which יַהְוֶה is found
• Tetragrammaton - Jewish use of the word
• Tetragrammaton - Possible effect on the Hebrew Language
• Tetragrammaton - Alternative names
• Tetragrammaton - Possible origins
• Tetragrammaton - Popular culture
• Tetragrammaton - Footnotes

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A mummy is a corpse whose skin and flesh have been preserved by deliberate or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold or dryness, or airlessness. The best-known mummies are those that have been deliberately embalmed with the specific purpose of preservation, particularly those in ancient Egypt. Egyptians believed the body was home to a person's Ka which was essential in one's afterlife. In Egypt, the bodies were covered in natron to speed up the process of dehydration, and to prevent decomposition. In China, preserved corpses have been recovered from submerged ...

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• Mummy - Etymology
• Mummy - Mummies in Ancient Egypt
• Mummy - Egyptian mummification process
• Mummy - Egyptian burial rituals
• Mummy - Open problems
• Mummy - Mummies in other civilizations
• Mummy - Chinese mummy
• Mummy - Natural mummies
• Mummy - Mummies in recent times
• Mummy - Mummies in fiction
• Mummy - Famous mummies
• Mummy - From Egypt
• Mummy - Others

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Dr. Robert "Bob" Brier (b. December 13, 1943) also affectionately known as Mr. Mummy is a famous American Egyptologist. Bob Brier - Background. Dr. Robert Brier, a world-renowned Egyptologist, paleopathologist and Senior Research Fellow at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, is considered by many to be the world's foremost expert on mummies and the mummification process. Born and raised in The Bronx, New York, Dr. Brier earned his bachelor's degree from Hunter College of the City U ...

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• Bob Brier - Background
• Bob Brier - Research and Other Achievements
• Bob Brier - Current and Planned Endeavors
• Bob Brier - Published Works

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The most general definition of nationalism is broad, and has been controversial throughout history. Specific examples of nationalism are extremely diverse. Extreme emotions are aroused when discussing nationalism, and that makes it difficult to describe and define nationalism. A recurring problem is that people define nationalism on the basis of their local experience. To a Breton nationalist, the central issue is state nationalism versus cultural nationalism; elsewhere that distinction may be irrelevant. Often supporters of nationalism fear ...

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• Nationalism - Background and problems
• Nationalism - Issues in nationalism theory
• Nationalism - Historical evolution of nationalism
• Nationalism - Prior to 1900
• Nationalism - 20th Century nationalism
• Nationalism - Language and nationalism
• Nationalism - Prominent figures
• Nationalism - Types of nationalism
• Nationalism - Nationalism within nations
• Nationalism - Post-2001 nationalism in the United States
• Nationalism - Patriotism and extremism
• Nationalism - Racism
• Nationalism - Opposition and critique
• Nationalism - Historical effect of nationalism

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Jürgen von Beckerath (born 19 February 1920) is a prominent German Egyptologist. He is a prolific writer who has published countless articles in journals such as Orientalia, Göttinger Miszellen (GM), Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE), Archiv für Orientforschung (AfO) and Studien Zur Altägyptischen Kultur (SAK) among others. Together with Kenneth Kitchen, he is viewed as one of the foremost scholars on ...

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The Story of Wenamun (alternately known as the Report of Wenamun, The Misadventures of Wenamun, or [informally] as just Wenamun) is a literary text written in hieratic in the Late Egyptian language. It is only known from one incomplete copy discovered in 1890 at al-Hibah, Egypt, and subsequently purchased in 1891 in Cairo by the Russian Egyptologist Vladimir Semenovič Goleniščev (Caminos 1977:1). The papyrus is now in the collection of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, and officially designated as Pap ...

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• Story of Wenamun - The text
• Story of Wenamun - Analysis
• Story of Wenamun - Importance of the document
• Story of Wenamun - Websites

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David M. Rohl is a British Egyptologist and historian who has put forth several controversial theories concerning the chronology of Ancient Egypt and Palestine. David Rohl - Biography. Rohl traces his fascination with ancient Egypt to a visit of that country at the age of ten, which featured a journey on the Nile on King Farouk's paddle-steamer. He first worked as a rock musician, forming a band in 1968, which eventually became Mandalaband, which released two albums, "Mandalaband" and "The Eye of Wen ...

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• David Rohl - Biography
• David Rohl - Theories
• David Rohl - Egypt
• David Rohl - Garden of Eden
• David Rohl - Writings
• David Rohl - Published Books
• David Rohl - Video

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Book of the Dead is the common name for ancient Egyptian funerary texts known as The Book of Coming [or Going] Forth By Day. The name "Book of the Dead" was the invention of the German Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius, who published a selection of some texts in 1842. "Books" were nothing like a modern book – the text was initially carved on the exterior of the deceased person's sarcophagus, but was later written on papyrus now known as scrolls and buried inside the sarcophagus with the deceased, presumably so that it ...

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The documentary hypothesis is a hypothesis proposed by many historians and academics in the field of linguistics and source criticism that the Five Books of Moses (the Torah) are in fact a combination of documents from different sources rather than authored by one individual. Although the hypothesis is widely accepted (the Vatican itself estimates that 90% of academics in the field of biblical scholarship support it), it has a number of substantial critics, such as conservative, evangelical Egyptologist Kenneth Kitchen, but also among critical scholars, ...

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• Documentary hypothesis - The hypothesis
• Documentary hypothesis - Background to the hypothesis
• Documentary hypothesis - The modern hypothesis
• Documentary hypothesis - Secondary hypothesis
• Documentary hypothesis - History of the hypothesis
• Documentary hypothesis - Traditional Jewish and Christian beliefs
• Documentary hypothesis - Rabbinical biblical criticism
• Documentary hypothesis - The Enlightenment
• Documentary hypothesis - 19th-Century Theories
• Documentary hypothesis - Julius Wellhausen
• Documentary hypothesis - Richard Elliot Friedman
• Documentary hypothesis - The modern era
• Documentary hypothesis - Opponents of the hypothesis
• Documentary hypothesis - Debates between non-fundamentalist academics supporting the Documentary Hypothesis
• Documentary hypothesis - Highlighted source text at Wikisource

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Cats (Felis catus) are among the most common pets in the world. In the United States, for example, according to a survey released by the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association, feline pets number around 77 million. Even though cats have now overtaken dogs in popularity in the US, and are enormously popular elsewhere, the history of feline domestication is not as well known as that of their canine counterparts. In 1888, an Egyptian farmer accidentally uncovered a large tomb containing thousands upon thousands of ...

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• Cats in Ancient Egypt - Cats in other religions
• Cats in Ancient Egypt - Cats in everyday life in Ancient Egypt
• Cats in Ancient Egypt - Cats in Egyptian mythology
• Cats in Ancient Egypt - Bubastis and the Cult of the Cat
• Cats in Ancient Egypt - Funerary traditions
• Cats in Ancient Egypt - The decline of cat-worship

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Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (3 June 1853 – 28 July 1942) was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology. The grandson of Captain Matthew Flinders, explorer of the coasts of Australia, Petrie was born in Charlton, England. He was educated at home by his parents. Petrie's father, a surveyor, taught his son how to survey accurately, so laying the foundation for his career. After surveying British prehistoric monuments, including Stonehenge, Petrie travelled to Egypt in 1880 to s ...

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Egyptology is the scientific study of Ancient Egypt and Egyptian antiquities and is a regional and thematic branch of the larger disciplines of ancient history and archaeology. A practitioner of the discipline is an Egyptologist. Egyptology investigates the range of Ancient Egyptian culture (language, literature, history, religion, art, economics, and ethics) from the 5th millennium BC u ...

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The Great Pyramid of Giza (29°58′41″N, 31°07′53″E) is the oldest and last remaining of the Seven Wonders of the World. It is generally believed the Great Pyramid was built as the tomb of Fourth dynasty Egyptian king Khufu (also known under his Greek name Cheops and believed to have reigned from 2606-2583 BC), after whom it is sometimes called Khufu's Pyramid or the Pyramid of Khufu. Traditionally, the architect of the ...

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• Great Pyramid of Giza - Age and location
• Great Pyramid of Giza - Construction
• Great Pyramid of Giza - Labor

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For a long time the cause of Tutankhamun's death was unknown, and was the root of much speculation. How old was the king when he died? Did he suffer from any physical abnormalities? Had he been murdered? Many of these questions were finally answered in early 2005 when the results of a set of CT scans on the mummy were released. The body was originally inspected by Howard Carter’s team in the early 1920s, though they were primarily interested in recovering the jewelry and amulets from the body. To remove the objects from the body, wh ...

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Tutankhamun, Tutankhamun - Life, Tutankhamun - Family, Tutankhamun - Reign, Tutankhamun - Events after his death, Tutankhamun - Name, Tutankhamun - Cause of death, Tutankhamun - 2005 research, Tutankhamun - Tutankhamun in popular culture, Tutankhamun - Discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, Tutankhamun - Tutankhamun's appearance, Tutankhamun - Exhibitions, Tutankhamun - Notes

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Widely considered a military genius by historians, he was an active expansionist ruler, sometimes referred to as the Napoleon of Egypt, because he was recorded to have captured 350 cities during his rule, conquering much of the Near East, from the Euphrates to Nubia. He was the first Pharaoh to cross the Euphrates, during his campaign against Mitanni. Thutmose III made a total of 17 known military campaigns. His most famous campaign was his first when he decisively defeated a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh a ...

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Thutmose III, Thutmose III - Thutmose's military campaigns, Thutmose III - Controversy about relationship with Hatshepsut, Thutmose III - Death and burial, Thutmose III - Further readings

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A line by line translation by André Lemair, is as follows (with text that cannot be read due to being missing from the stele, or too damaged by erosion, represented by "[.....]"): 1'. [.....................].......[...................................] and cut [.........................] 2'. [.........] my father went up [....................f]ighting at/against Ab[....] 3'. And my father lay down; he went to his [fathers]. And the king of I[s-] 4'. rael penetrated into my father's land[. And] Hadad made me—myself� ...

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Tel Dan Stele, Tel Dan Stele - The stele's account, Tel Dan Stele - Possible Biblical parallels, Tel Dan Stele - Dispute over the phrase House of David

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Two live-action television series continue the story of the original movie (with adjustments). An animated series has also been broadcast, but it is not currently considered canon. Stargate - Stargate SG-1. Stargate SG-1 debuted on Showtime on July 27, 1997, and moved to the Sci-Fi Channel after its fifth season. Created by Jonathan Glassner and Brad Wright, it starred Richard Dean Anderson (as O'Neill), Michael Shanks (as Jackson), Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge and Don S. Davis. M ...

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Stargate, Stargate - Film, Stargate - Television, Stargate - Stargate SG-1, Stargate - Stargate Atlantis, Stargate - Stargate Infinity, Stargate - Books, Stargate - Movie-based, Stargate - Series-based, Stargate - Comic books, Stargate - Other

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