Egyptologists suspect that this was done deliberately, but the meaning behind this is unknown.

Based on the association of her name with the throne, some early Egyptologists believed that Isis's original function was that of throne-mother.

The possible reasons for her breasts not being emphasized in the most formal statues were debated among some early Egyptologists, who failed to understand the ritual religious symbolism, to take into account the fact that many women and goddesses portrayed in ancient Egyptian art often lack delineation of breasts, and that the physical aspect of the gender of pharaohs was never stressed in the art.

and his predecessor from their agents in Palestine, leads some Egyptologists to conclude that in the century before the Exodus an active literary intercourse was carried on between these nations, and that the medium of the correspondence was the Babylonian language and script.

Jean François Champollion, Thomas Young and Ippolito Rosellini were some of the first Egyptologists of wide acclaim.

This leads some Egyptologists to suggest that the latter temple had been built over the site of the first.

However, in the 20th century, some Egyptologists question the whole scenario.

Plutarch may not however be correct, as some Egyptologists allege that the Sinope in the tale is really the hill of Sinopeion, a name given to the site of the already existing Serapeum at Memphis.

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.

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.

While Manetho names Necherophes and the Turin King List names Nebka as the first ruler of the Third dynasty, many Egyptologists now believe Djoser was first king of this dynasty, pointing out that the order in which some predecessors of Khufu are mentioned in the Papyrus Westcar suggests Nebka should be placed between Djoser and Huni, not before Djoser.

Since Khasekhemwy, a pharaoh from the 2nd dynasty, was the last pharaoh to be buried at Abydos, some Egyptologists infer that the shift to a more northerly capital was completed during Djoser's time.

Most Egyptologists believe the statuette is contemporary, but some scholars, such as Zahi Hawass, think that it was an artistic reproduction of the 26th dynasty.

Today modern Egyptologists evaluate Herodot's and Diodorus's story as some sort of defamation, based on both author's contemporary philosophy.

On the other side, some Egyptologists think that the ancient historians received their material for their stories not only from priests, but from the citizens living since ages close to the necropolis, too.

Today modern Egyptologists evaluate Herodot ´ s and Diodor ´ s story as some sort of defamation, based on both author ´ s contemporary philosophy.

While he was traditionally seen as one of Akhenaten's immediate successors, today some Egyptologists such as Aidan Dodson consider him to be the immediate predecessor of Neferneferuaten and a junior co-regent of Akhenaten who did not have an independent reign.

Thus some Egyptologists have proposed that Tadukhipa and Kiya might be the same person.

Whether she died, was exiled, or suffered some other misfortune, Egyptologists have often interpreted the erasure of her name as a sign of disgrace.

He succeeded to the throne at age six, after the death of Merenre I, and is generally credited with having the longest reign of any monarch in history at 94 years ( c. 2278 BC – c. 2184 BC ) although this figure has been disputed by some Egyptologists who favour a shorter reign of not much more than 64 years.

Amenemhet is widely assumed by some Egyptologists to have either usurped the throne or assumed power after Mentuhotep IV died childless.

Accordingly some skepticism concerning the truth of his claims has been expressed among Egyptologists.

Amenhotep II did not openly record the names of his queens ; some Egyptologists theorise that he felt that women had become too powerful under titles such as God's Wife of Amun.

On this basis, some Egyptologists have concluded that Neferirkare and Sahure were brothers.

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.

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.

To organize and feed the manpower needed to create these pyramids required a centralized government with extensive powers, and Egyptologists believe the Old Kingdom at this time demonstrated this level of sophistication.

At this time, the English comprised the majority of Egyptologists in Egypt.

The Horus name of Hotepsekhemwy is the subject of particular interest to Egyptologists and historians, as it may hint at the turbulent politics of the time.

The names " Netjerbau " and " Bau-hetepju " are problematic, since Egyptologists can't find any name source from Hotepsekhemwy's time that could have been used to form them.

Egyptologists disagree on the length of time it took to construct.

The word Egyptus is considered to be an anachronism in the Book of Abraham among non-Mormon Egyptologists and historians, since the origin of term " Egypt " is believed to have come from another source much later in history from the time of the narrative described in the Book of Abraham.

Some are serious enough to be considered problematic ( for example ; 1. none of the astronomical observations have dates that mention the specific pharaoh in whose reign they were observed, forcing Egyptologists supply that information on the basis of a certain amount of informed speculation, 2. there is no information regarding the nature of the civil calendar throughout the course of Egyptian history, forcing Egyptologists to assume that it existed unchanged for thousands of years ), other criticisms are not considered as problematic ( for example ; there is no extant mention of the Sothic cycle in ancient Egyptian writing, which may simply be a result of it either being so obvious to Egyptians that it didn't merit mention or to relevant texts being destroyed over time or still awaiting discovery ).

In contrast, Egyptologists such as Barbara Bell believe that an economic catastrophe such as a famine or a long lasting drought affected Egypt around this time.

This hypothesis was not fully accepted by all Egyptologists at that time, however.

For archaeologists and Egyptologists, the complete arrangement of the burial site looks like the builders were pressed for time.

In contrast Egyptologists such as Barbara Bell believe that a economic catastrophe such as a famine or a long-lasting drought affected Egypt at that time.

A variant of the name is Ramose ; Egyptologists usually use the Ramesses variant for pharaohs and Ramose for non-royals.

Setnakhte's origins are unknown, and he may have been a commoner, although many Egyptologists believe he was related to the previous dynasty, the Nineteenth, through his mother and may thus have been a grandson of Ramesses II.

The identity of his father is currently unknown ; some Egyptologists speculate it may have been Amenmesse rather than Seti II since both Siptah and Amenmesse spent their youth in Chemmis and both are specifically excluded from Ramesses III's Medinet Habu procession of statues of ancestral kings unlike Merneptah or Seti.