Egyptologists have long debated the degree to which the pharaoh was considered a god.

Some Egyptologists consider this to have been the result of deliberate design proportion.

Egyptologists use the word for texts and representations inscribed in stone that have been scraped away, either completely or partially, often with a plaster filling being applied, and then a new inscription carved on top.

Unlike the Rosetta Stone, their hieroglyphic inscriptions were relatively intact, and though the inscriptions on the Rosetta Stone had been deciphered long before the discovery of the other copies of the decree, subsequent Egyptologists including Wallis Budge used these other inscriptions to further refine the actual hieroglyphs that must have been used in the lost portions of the hieroglyphic register on the Rosetta Stone.

Although many Egyptologists regard the story as a myth, people have searched for the remains of the soldiers for many years.

Egyptologists have vocalized the word variously as Aten, Aton, Atonu, and Itn.

Since the 1970s, however, Egyptologists have concluded that the text dates from the New Kingdom at the earliest.

Another continuing debate concerns the opposition of Horus and Set, which Egyptologists have often tried to connect with political events early in Egypt's history or prehistory.

Some early Egyptologists have proposed that it was a stylised representation of the giraffe, due to the large flat-topped ' horns ' which correspond to a giraffe's ossicones.

Some Egyptologists have reconstructed these as Set poking out Horus's left eye, and Horus retaliating by castrating Set.

Although many Egyptologists have claimed that her foreign policy was mainly peaceful, there is evidence that Hatshepsut led successful military campaigns in Nubia, the Levant, and Syria early in her career.

Commenting on the fact that Egyptologists have no problem in reconstructing history using inference of this sort, whereas critics will sometimes not allow the same historical method to be applied to the Bible, Young writes, " Do those who reject the Menahem / Pekah rivalry as improbable also reject as improbable this reconstruction from Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty that Egyptologists use to explain the regnal dates of Thutmose III?

Some current historians tend to believe Herodotus ' account, primarily because he stated with disbelief that the Phoenicians " as they sailed on a westerly course round the southern end of Libya ( Africa ), they had the sun on their right-to northward of them " ( The Histories 4. 42 ) -- in Herodotus ' time it was not known that Africa extended south past the equator ; however, Egyptologists also point out that it would have been extremely unusual for an Egyptian Pharaoh to carry out such an expedition.

Some Egyptologists hold to this view though the majority believe Smenkhkare to have been a separate person.

Egyptologists have traditionally theorised that the priesthood of Heliopolis established this pesedjet in order to stress the preeminence of the sun-god above other deities, incorporating gods which had been venerated elsewhere for centuries while ignoring others.

I'm not sure that many Egyptologists have also been game-players, and some of their suggested rules don't seem to make sense.

Some Egyptologists have suggested that Maahes was of foreign origin ; indeed there is some evidence that he may have been identical with the lion-god Apedemak worshipped in Nubia and Egypt's Western Desert.

Later, in the Ptolemaic period of Egyptian history, chambers were constructed, painted with images of Bes and his wife Beset, thought by Egyptologists to have been for the purpose of curing fertility problems or general healing rituals.

There are also some signs that are unique to hieratic, though Egyptologists have invented equivalent hieroglyphic forms for hieroglyphic transcriptions and typesetting.

Between the columns on both sides of the hall were small chambers, which some Egyptologists propose may have been for each of the provinces of Upper and Lower Egypt.

Other Egyptologists speculated that Ay, a successor of Tutankhamen as pharaoh after the latter's death, also might have been descended from Tiye.

Though he was regarded as an amateur and dilettante by more established Egyptologists, this made him popular with his workers, who found several small but significant finds that would have been lost under the old system.

Many Egyptologists also include the Memphite Seventh and Eighth Dynasties in the Old Kingdom as a continuation of the administration centralized at Memphis.

No clear date or monument can confirm the link between the two, but these Egyptologists presumed this by Ay's origins, also from Akhmin, and because he inherited most of the titles that Tiye's father, Yuya, held during his lifetime, at the court of Amenhotep III.

His subsequent works of the same kind — Uarda ( 1877 ), Homo sum ( 1878 ), Die Schwestern ( 1880 ), Der Kaiser ( 1881 ), of which the scene is laid in Egypt at the time of Hadrian, Serapis ( 1885 ), Die Nilbraut ( 1887 ), and Kleopatra ( 1894 ), were also well received, and did much to make the public familiar with the discoveries of Egyptologists.

Flinders Petrie was also responsible for mentoring and training a whole generation of Egyptologists, including Howard Carter.

The preceding generations included knights, sorcerers, scientists, artists, Egyptologists and even professional gamblers, all of whom were also secretly " vicious vampire ducks ".

Other alleged misconstructions were also noted by these Egyptologists.

Scholars and Egyptologists have also criticized Facsimile 2 for containing false reconstruction of lacunae, suggesting that Joseph Smith reconstructed portions of the vignette with characters from another papyrus.

The problem with a close study of Manetho, despite the reliance of Egyptologists on him for their reconstructions of the Egyptian dynasties, is that not only was Aegyptiaca not preserved as a whole, it also became involved in a bitter battle between advocates of Egyptian, Jewish, and Greek histories in the form of supporting polemics.

In his seasonal winter digs in Egypt he always hired a well-furnished boat on the Nile to accommodate his travelling library, which also enabled him to offer tea to visiting Egyptologists like the young American James Henry Breasted and his wife.

Egyptologists such as Wolfgang Helck and Peter Munro are not convinced and think that Gallery Tomb B is instead the burial site of king Raneb, as several seal impressions of this ruler were also found there.

He is also a member of the following: Council of the International Union of Egyptologists ; Scientific Committee of the International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East ; Visiting Committee of the Egyptian Department of the Metropolitan Museum of New York.

Other Egyptologists such as Gerard Broekman, Karl Jansen-Winkeln, Aidan Dodson and Jürgen von Beckerath have also endorsed this position.

He also established the journal Recueil de travaux relatifs à la philologie et à l ' archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes ; the Bibliothèque égyptologique, in which the scattered essays of the French Egyptologists are collected, with biographies, etc.

Thus, since Agathodaemon was considered to be a serpent, and the word Shai was also the Egyptian word for pig, in the Hellenic period, Shai was sometimes depicted as a serpent-headed pig, known to Egyptologists as the Shai animal.

The tomb of Princess Sithathoriunet, a daughter of Senusret II, was also discovered by Egyptologists in a separate burial site.

Consequently, Egyptologists have proposed the translation " Lord of the sun ( of Horus )" which is read " Nebra " and implies the pharaoh's rule over the Sun ( as a celestial body ), which was indeed also under Horus's or Seth ´ s control.

Peribsen's identity is also the subject of debate by Egyptologists and historians.

The title " The golden one ", also read as ″ He of Ombos ″, is considered by Egyptologists to be a religious form of address to the deity Seth.

It would appear that a lack of comprehension of the animal species native to Egypt led European Egyptologists to mistake the deity Wewawet for a jackal even while the Ancient Egyptians clearly identified it as a wolf.

In the very early years after the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs, on chronological, historical, and linguistic grounds, nearly all Egyptologists identified Shishak with Sheshonk I.