Egyptologist

Egyptologist is the designation given to an archaeologist or historian who specialises in Egyptology, the scientific study of Ancient Egypt and its antiquities.

Significant Egyptologists include:

Living

• Manfred Bietak
• Bob Brier
• Zahi Hawass
• Christian Jacq
• Kenneth Kitchen
• David Rohl
• Kent R. Weeks

Deceased

• Giovanni Battista Belzoni
• Joseph Bonomi
• James Henry Breasted

• Howard Carter
• Jean-François Champollion

• Alan Gardiner

• Edward William Lane
• Karl Richard Lepsius
• R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz

• Gerald Massey

• William Flinders Petrie

• Henry Salt

• John Gardiner Wilkinson
• Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge

See also: Egyptologist, Alan Gardiner, Ancient Egypt, Bob Brier, Christian Jacq, David Rohl, E. A. Wallis Budge, Edward William Lane, Egyptology, Gerald Massey