Count Jan Nepomucen Potocki (; March 8, 1761 – December 1815 ) was a Polish nobleman, Polish Army Captain of Engineers, ethnologist, Egyptologist, linguist, traveler, adventurer and popular author of the Enlightenment period, whose life and exploits made him a legendary figure in his homeland.

* Count Jan Potocki ( 1761 – 1815 ), capitan, engineer of the Crown Army, ethnologist, Egyptologist, linguist, and author.

The story has been linked with anti-Jewish propaganda of the 2nd and 1st centuries BCE as an inversion of the Exodus story, but an influential study by Egyptologist Jan Assmann has suggested that no single historical incident or person lies behind the legend, and that it represents instead a conflation of several historical traumas, notably the religious reforms of Ahkenaton ( Amenophis IV ).

An influential proposition by Egyptologist Jan Assmann suggests that the story has no single origin but rather combines numerous historical experiences, notably the Amarna and Hyksos periods, into a folk memory.

* Jan Assmann ( born 1938 ), German Egyptologist

Muwaffaq al-Din Muhammad ' Abd al-Latif ibn Yusuf al-Baghdadi (; 1162 – 1231 ), more commonly known as ' Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi or ' Abdallatif al-Baghdadi (), born in Baghdad, Iraq, was a celebrated physician, historian, Egyptologist and traveller, and one of the most voluminous writers of the Near East in his time.

Howard Carter ( 9 May 18742 March 1939 ) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist known for discovering the tomb of 14th-century BC pharaoh Tutankhamun.

Margaret Alice Murray ( 13 July 1863 – 13 November 1963 ) was a prominent British Egyptologist and anthropologist.

The Egyptologist J. Gwyn Griffiths concluded that several elements of this account were taken from Greek mythology, and that the work as a whole was not based directly on Egyptian sources.

It was snapped up for a " preposterous " price by the great Egyptologist Wallis Budge, of the British Museum.

The Egyptologist Donald B. Redford observed that although Necho II was " a man of action from the start, and endowed with an imagination perhaps beyond that of his contemporaries, Necho had the misfortune to foster the impression of being a failure.

In 1933, the Egyptologist Margaret Murray published the book, The God of the Witches, in which she theorised that Pan was merely one form of a horned god who was worshipped across Europe by a witch-cult.

Egyptologist Edward Wente ( 1990 ) speculates that the Fifth-dynasty Pharaoh Djedkare Isesi — in his many letters sent to his viziers — was a pioneer in the epistolary genre.

The 5th Earl was an enthusiastic amateur Egyptologist, undertaking in 1907 to sponsor the excavation of nobles ' tombs in Deir el-Bahri ( Thebes ).

William Matthew Flinders Petrie, FRS ( 3 June 1853 – 28 July 1942 ), commonly known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of artifacts.

Egyptologist Kenneth Kitchen has estimated that it was 15 years, but as there are no dates recorded for Seti I after his 11th Year, and as he is otherwise quite well documented in historical records, other scholars suggest that a continuous break in the record for his last four years is unlikely.

The language had been extinct on Earth for many millennia, but Jackson nevertheless was familiar with it as an Egyptologist and a linguist.

'" Egyptologist John Darnell asserts that the hymn was sung.

Monsterrat argues that all the versions of the hymns focus on the king and suggests that the real innovation is to redefine the relationship of god and king in a way that benefited Akhenaten, quoting the statement of Egyptologist John Baines that " Amarna religion was a religion of god and king, or even of king first and then god.

He noted that they included those " who openly admitted to not having read a word written by a trained Egyptologist " but who at the same time " were pronouncing how academic Egyptology was all wrong, even sinister.

According to the French ( Sorbonne ) Egyptologist Nicolas Grimal, Horemheb does not appear to be the same person as Paatenemheb ( Aten Is Present In Jubilation ) who was the Commander-in-chief of Akhenaten's army.

The Egyptologist Rolf Krauss, in a DE 30 ( 1994 ) paper, has argued that this date may well reflect Horemheb's accession where a feast or public holiday was traditionally proclaimed to honour the accession date of a deceased or a current king.

Kircher was respected in the seventeenth century for his study of Egyptian hieroglyphs ; his exact contemporary Sir Thomas Browne ( 1605 – 1682 ) who possessed several works of Kircher including Oedipus Aegyptiacus paid tribute to him as an Egyptologist and his study of hieroglyphs:

" ( Breasted 1930 ) The Papyrus was purchased in 1872 by the German Egyptologist and novelist Georg Ebers ( born in Berlin, 1837 ), after whom it is named.

Egyptologist Bob Brier suggested that Ay murdered Tutankhamun in order to usurp the throne, a claim which was based on X-ray examinations of the body done in 1968.

However, the sarcophagus lid was discovered in 1972 by Otto Schaden, the US Egyptologist who opened Tomb KV63 in the Valley of the Kings in 2006.

He was the son of an architect and draughtsman, Joseph Bonomi ( 1739-1808 ), who had worked with Robert and James Adam, while his brother Joseph Bonomi the Younger was a noted artist, sculptor and Egyptologist.

In the early 1990s, he designed a Government-sponsored monument to the Egyptologist Jean Francois Champollion who deciphered the Rosetta Stone in Figeac ; in Japan, he took on the curatorship of a show celebrating the Tokyo opening of Barneys New York ; and in Frankfurt, Germany, and in Columbus, Ohio, he conceived neon monuments to the German cultural historian Walter Benjamin.

He owned over 18, 000 coins and medals, and was also an archaeologist, amateur artist, historian ( he demonstrated that Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain set out not from Calais but from St Omer ), Egyptologist, botanist, zoologist ( studying chameleons, crocodiles, the elephant and the alzaron, a sort of Nubian gazelle with a bull-like head, now disappeared ), physiologist, geographer ( put on the project of linking Aix to Marseilles ), and ecologist.

There have also been and are a number of scholars who reject it, for example Egyptologist Kenneth Kitchen and the late Umberto Cassuto and Gleason Archer.

The mummy and its wrappings were examined the same year by the German Egyptologist Heinrich Brugsch, who noticed the text, but believed them to be Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Peabody is married to Egyptologist Radcliffe Emerson and has one biological child, Walter " Ramses " Peabody Emerson, who provides a parallel voice in many of the later books.

It is possible, however that even during Merneferre Ay's reign that Egypt's unity had been lost since to the emergence of the separate 14th dynasty under Nehesy at Avaris has been dated to " stratum F ( or b / 3 ), corresponding to the late 13th Dynasty " at Tell el-Daba ( Avaris )-- according to the Austrian Egyptologist Manfred Bietak who dates this event to the period around or just after 1710 BC.

Note that south is at the top of the map. Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani al-Sabti or simply Al Idrisi (; ) ( 1099 – 1165 or 1166 ) was a Muslim geographer, cartographer, Egyptologist and traveller who lived in Sicily, at the court of King Roger II.

The English Egyptologist, Morris Bierbrier also dated Shoshenq I's accession " between 945-940 BC " in his seminal 1975 book concerning the genealogies of Egyptian officials who served during the late New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period.

Earth-19 ( the Gotham by Gaslight universe ), set in a Victorian-like era, has its own version of Dan Garrett who in his secret identity is the leading Egyptologist at the Gotham Museum of Natural History and wears a monocle, appearing in The Search for Ray Palmer: Gotham by Gaslight.

His maternal grandfather was diplomat and traveller Aubrey Herbert, and through him Auberon Waugh was related to Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, a leading member of the Conservative Party, Esme Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Penrith, ambassador to the United States, and George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, the famous Egyptologist who discovered King Tutankhamen's tomb, and the Irish Viscount de Vesci.

The opera was based on a story by the Egyptologist Auguste Mariette who would have been known to Ms Edwards.

* George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, a collector of Egyptian antiquities who financed archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, stayed many times at the Winter Palace.

Ernesto Schiaparelli ( July 12, 1856 – February 14, 1928 ) was an Italian Egyptologist, born in Occhieppo Inferiore ( Biella ), who found Queen Nefertari's tomb in Deir el-Medina in the Valley of the Queens ( 1904 ) and excavated the TT8 tomb of the royal architect Kha ( 1906 ), found intact and displayed in toto in Turin.

He was a half-brother to George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, the famous Egyptologist who discovered King Tutankhamen's tomb.

He was the father of Ignatius Bonomi ( 1787-1870 ), also an architect, and of Joseph Bonomi the Younger ( 1796-1878 ), who became an eminent sculptor, artist and Egyptologist.

The Egyptologist Karl Jansen-Winkeln notes that an important graffito from the Temple of Abydos contains the complete titles of a king Tyetkheperre Setepenre Pasebakhaenniut Meryamun " who is simultaneously called the HPA ( ie.

He is an Egyptologist who is typically addressed as Professor, although he hates his first name and prefers to be called " Emerson.

Kitchen views Shoshenq II to be the High Priest of Amun at Thebes Shoshenq C, and a short-lived coregent of Osorkon I who predeceased his father, the well-respected German Egyptologist Jürgen von Beckerath in his seminal 1997 book, Chronologie des Pharaonischen Ägypten, maintains that Shoshenq II was rather an independent king of Tanis who ruled the 22nd Dynasty in his own right for c. 2 Years.