A cover of a track from World Party's album, Egyptology, became Williams ' second number one hit in the UK.

In Paris, Rillieux became interested in Egyptology and hieroglyphics, which he studied with the family of Jean-François Champollion.

Having made a special study of Egyptology, he became in 1865 Dozent in Egyptian language and antiquities at Jena, becoming professor in 1868.

Returning to England at the end of 1880, Petrie wrote a number of articles and then met Amelia Edwards, journalist and patron of the Egypt Exploration Fund ( now the Egypt Exploration Society ), who became his strong supporter and later appointed him as Professor at her Egyptology chair at University College London.

" During the later years of his life, ( from about 1870 onwards ) Massey became interested increasingly in Egyptology and the similarities that exist between ancient Egyptian mythology and the Gospel stories.

His eldest son, Eilhard Ernst Gustav, born at Berlin on August 1, 1852, became professor of physics at Erlangen in 1886, and his younger son, Alfred, born at Berlin on July 18, 1856, was appointed to the extraordinary professorship of Egyptology at Bonn in 1892.

Educated at Leipzig and Berlin, he became associate professor of Egyptology at the University of Berlin in 1883 and full professor in 1892.

Weeks professional career began with his appointment as Assistant Curator of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art then assistant Professor at the University of Chicago and Director of its Institute in Luxor ( Chicago House ), then professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and in 1988 became a professor of Egyptology at The American University in Cairo.

He became director of the School of Egyptology at Cairo, producing numerous very valuable works and pioneering the decipherment of Demotic, the simplified script of the later Egyptian periods.

: Until the findings of Egyptology became known to them, all that most Egyptians knew about Pharaoh was what they learned from the Qur ' an, and the image of Pharaoh in the Qur ' an is much the same as in the Old Testament.

From 1990, Kanawati became Macquarie University's first Professor in Egyptology and holds a Personal Chair in that subject.

According to the UCLA the standard text that scholars referenced for studies of Egyptology was for three decades or more, the Lexicon der Ägyptologie.

World Party has gone on to release four more albums — Goodbye Jumbo, Bang !, Egyptology and Dumbing Up.

Scholars have studied Egyptology for centuries but archaeologists have only paid serious attention to the rest of the continent in more recent times.

The Egyptian historian Al-Idrisi ( d. 1251 ) developed another archaeological methodology in his book Anwar for Egyptology, which included: " reasons for the study of the importance of the pyramids ; description of the route to the site ; description of the pyramids and their inscriptions ; measuring, and checking previous measurements ; analysis of the form of the pyramid and reasons for building, with a critical review of literature ( more than 22 authorities quoted ) on the subject ; study of sediments as an indication of the flood level ; chemical analysis of clay in building material, by studying its mineral content in order to check place of origin ; regular visits to the site to see it in different conditions, and to recheck measurements ; noting stones reused at Jeremias Monastery, Saqqara as evidence of earlier dates, an observation confirmed by modern research.

In the field of Egyptology his work is fairly obscure and his anthropological work is even more obscure.

For instance, in 1966, John A. Wilson, professor of Egyptology at the University of Chicago, wrote, " From time to time there are allegations that picture writing has been found in America … In no case has a professional Egyptologist been able to recognize these characters as Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Following a 10-year career in the Scandinavian theater world, publication of the first Danish-language adventure game ( Skabet ), and a short stint studying Egyptology, Reiss ' first book, The Compleat Talking Machine ( ISBN 1-886606-18-8 ) led to a career change in 1986 when he migrated from theater to professional writing.

This work was one of the earliest works on Egyptology.

Primarily known for her work in Egyptology, which was " the core of her academic career ," she is also known for her propagation of the Witch-cult hypothesis, the theory that the witch trials in the Early Modern period of Christianized Europe and North America were an attempt to extinguish a surviving pre-Christian, pagan religion devoted to a Horned God.

Her work in Egyptology took place largely alongside her mentor and friend, the archaeologist Sir Flinders Petrie, whom she worked alongside at University College London.

During the Christmas holidays of 1873, Evans cataloged a coin collection being bequeathed to Harrow by John Gardner Wilkinson, the father of British Egyptology, who was too ill to work on it himself.

His 1824 work Précis du système hiéroglyphique gave birth to the entire field of modern Egyptology.

One of his sons, Edward ( 1648 – 1727 ), published several contributions from Arabic literature-a fragment of Abd-el-latif's work on Egyptology and the Philosophus Autodidactus of Ibn Tufayl ( Abubacer ).

Oedipus Aegyptiacus is Athanasius Kircher's supreme work of Egyptology.

His work, which draws comparisons between the Judeo-Christian religion and the Egyptian religion, is not considered significant in the field of modern Egyptology and is not mentioned in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt or similar reference works of modern Egyptology.

With the aims of advancing the Fund's work, Edwards largely abandoned her other literary work to concentrate solely on Egyptology.

The work of Jean-François Champollion in deciphering the Rosetta stone to discover the hidden meaning of hieroglyphics proved the key to the study of Egyptology.

James is a controversial Afrocentricist whose work and motives have been hotly criticised by the mainstream Egyptology and especially Eurocentric oriented scholars.

He started work as an apprentice clerk in the City of London, but a youthful fascination with genealogy led him to the pharaohs of Ancient Egypt and so into Egyptology.

This was a mistake ( Egyptology was not yet studied at Oxford ) so he went on to Leipzig, and on his return to England found work with Flinders Petrie, first at University College London and then at Abydos in Egypt.

In the field of Egyptology, William Flinders Petrie pioneered sequence dating to penetrate pre-dynastic Neolithic times, using groups of contemporary artefacts deposited together at a single time in graves and working backwards methodically from the earliest historical phases of Egypt.

The group ultimately consisted of Breasted and four of his students ( or former students ): Ludlow Bull, William Edgerton ( both graduate students in Egyptology ); Daniel Luckenbill ( professor of Assyriology at the University of Chicago ), and William Shelton ( a former student who was a professor of Semitic languages at Emory University ).

There in 1819 he met the antiquarian Sir William Gell and resolved to study Egyptology.

His books, Dragonology: The Complete Book of Dragons ( one hundred copies printed in 1896 ), The Dragonology Handbook: A Practical Course in Dragons ( 1893 ), and Traking And Taming Dragons: A Guide For Beginners were republished by the Five Mile Press, who have also created facsimiles of Wizardology and the Wizardology Handbook written by Merlin, the legendary wizard, Egyptology Emily Sands and Pirateology captain William Lubber.

William K. Simpson, a professor emeritus of Egyptology at Yale University, states that Neferti can be classified as belonging to a " literature of pessimism " where the world is chaotic and therefore society's values are in need of restructuring, which is contrasted by the " literature of propaganda ," embodied in such works as Loyalist Teaching, where the virtues of the king are extolled.

Like most female academics of her generation, Murray had received no formal training, instead being taught Egyptology by Flinders Petrie.

He studied at Jesus College in Cambridge, continuing to study Archaeology and Egyptology under Kurt Sethe in Göttingen and Strasbourg and then excavated sites in and around Egypt with Flinders Petrie and Somers Clarke.

In 1923 Petrie was knighted for services to British archaeology and Egyptology.

Petrie remains a controversial figure for his pro-eugenics views and opinions on other social topics, which spilled over into his disputes with the British Museum's Egyptology expert, E. A. Wallis Budge.

The resultant interest in Egyptology in the 19th century led to the discovery of several sets of extensive ancient medical documents, including the Ebers papyrus, the Edwin Smith Papyrus, the Hearst Papyrus, the London Medical Papyrus and others dating back as far as 3000 BC.